I read Psalm 42 this morning and it reinvigorated my longing to be a man of God, to be like David, a man after God’s own heart. I want to be able to say and pray these words, not as a song someone else wrote, but as the song of my heart towards a God who loves me, who has forgiven me and has given me a mission and a purpose.
Psalm 42,
For the director of music. A maskil of the Sons of Korah.
“As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, my 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 people say to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”
These things I remember
as I pour out my soul:
how I used to go to the house of God
under the protection of the Mighty One
with shouts of joy and praise
among the festive throng.
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.
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 over me.
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, 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.”
Men? Who’s with me?
We serve a Living God who loves us and has given us a mission to serve in this broken world. To love, to forgive, to be good, be kind, be faithful to our wives and children and to our call, to be gentle and strong, and to have self control. We can’t do this alone. We need each other, we need to be men of the Word, we need the Holy Spirit leading and guiding us.
So I ask again, who’s with me?
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