As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul longs for you, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When can I go and meet with God?
My tears have been my food day and night,
while men say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
These things I remember as I pour out my soul:
how I used to fo with the multitude,
leading the procession to the house of God,
with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng.
Why are you downcast, O my soul?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.
My soul is downcast within me;
therefore I will remember you
from the land of the Jordan,
the heights of Hermon--from Mount Mizar.
Deep calls to deep
in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers
have swept me over.
By day the Lord directs his love,
at night his song is with me--
a prayer to the God of my life.
I say to God my Rock,
"Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I go about mourning,
oppressed by the enemy?"
My bones suffer mortal agony
as my foes taunt me,
saying to me all day long,
"Where is your God?"
Why are you downcast, O my soul?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.
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As a Christian and an artist, I face many emotional battles.
I have been in the depths of dispair and returned to the light.
I have been in the grips of death and brought forth to life.
I have feared and been covered by God's blanket of grace and mercy, with the prayers of many saints lifting me up so I feel no fear or pain.
I have been beaten and bruised and comforted by Christ.
I have fallen and been lifted up.
I have stumbled and been carried.
I have wept, grieved, mourned and cried and been held, loved, comforted and nourished.
My God is my Comforter. My Best Friend. My Source. My Strength. My Shield. My Strong Tower.
My God sent my Kinsman Redeemer. My God speaks to me, listens to me, encourages me, loves me, forgives me.
My God can do all things. ALL things.
I love my God!
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He is all that (and I'm sure much more, more than we in our limited bodies can understand in this life). I believe that He does not bring us to a situation he can not also bring us through- all the while glorifying himself. No illness, loss, let down, scar (emotional or physical), fear or circumstance. He holds all in his hands. And sometimes we think that believing He will pull us through in the way we think He should doens't mean that He will. We do not know His perfect ways and His perfect time. It doesn't mean He has let us down or not blessed us, but rather the opposite in a way we have yet to comprehend.
so true. Our views are so earthly and limited. We cannot possibly see what is going on in the spiritual realm unless He allows us to see.
I try to keep the vision of myself being healed and whole in my mind and to not allow current reality to scue my view. I know He has more in store for me than I could possibly see, and I am so happy to serve a God that can do any thing!
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