Devotional for March 4

St. Paul's UMC - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Read Psalms 40-42

 

Psalm 42 (Holman Christian Standard Bible)

¹ As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for You, God. ² I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and appear before God? ³ My tears have been my food day and night, while all day long people say to me, “Where is your God?” ⁴ I remember this as I pour out my heart: how I walked with many, leading the festive procession to the house of God, with joyful and thankful shouts.

⁵ Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him, my Savior and my God. ⁶ I am deeply depressed; therefore, I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. ⁷ Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me. ⁸ The Lord will send His faithful love by day; His song will be with me in the night— a prayer to the God of my life.

⁹ I will say to God, my rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I go about in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?” ¹⁰ My adversaries taunt me, as if crushing my bones, while all day long they say to me, “Where is your God?” ¹¹ Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him, my Savior and my God.