| There come times in the lives of most of God’s children when we have to say that “O my God, my soul is cast down within me,” when we feel that “deep calleth unto deep at the noise of Thy waterspouts: all Thy waves and Thy billows are gone over me.” When we are tired and weary, Satan takes advantage of us and seeks to discourage and depress us, as Amalek smote Israel “when thou wast faint and weary.” When we fail the Lord, even though we know that “if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness,” we are nevertheless oftentimes “cast down.” When we are in the midst of adverse and trying circumstances, we are prone to be “cast down” and “disquieted.” Let us remember that we may be “persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.” But “why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me?” “He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee”; He “forsaketh not His saints.” “Yet the Lord will command His loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.” |
