There are times when we can’t seem to grasp the hope rope.
People try to pull us out of our misery, and their help slips through our fingers like effervescent floss.
Psalm 42:11 offers us relief:
“Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.”
This verse comes in five sections. Let’s look at each one individually.
No. 1 –
“Why, my soul, are you downcast?”
We likely have a good answer for this … money, relationships … they come at us a mile a minute.
No. 2 –
“Why so disturbed within me?”
Downcast and disturbed are different. When we are upset, we want a change. We no longer want to be in the condition we are in.
No. 3 –
“Put your hope in God.”
Here’s where the author of this passage begins to offer us a solution. We must turn our eyes from our muddy situation unto our glorious God.
No. 4 –
“I will yet praise him.”
We begin to act on our desire to toss off our downcast countenance … our depression, our poor self-image, our self-loathing. We praise the Lord even in our saddened condition.
No. 5 –
“My Savior and my God.”
God becomes real to us. We accept that he is the master of our situation. We have no control, but he has all the control.
Of these five sections, these five sentences, these five instructions or observations, one stands out above the rest. I will yet praise him. In everything, no matter how desperate we feel, when we praise God even when we don’t feel it, things will change.
God will be at our side, and he will stand with us through it all.
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