Psalm 42:5, 42:11 and 43:5 all say the same thing.

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.

I’ve recently be trying to impart wisdom to my teenage daughter. As most of you know, imparting wisdom is a difficult thing for most of us. However, unfortunate or not, most of us have plenty of experience to reach back to which helps us offer up the “life-type” of wisdom. In the end, I guess this type of wisdom is more real than anything else we could use.

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If you’ve ever heard my college time stories, then you’ve heard all of the gory detail of how I basically just threw away a 4 Year Air Force scholarship. It was a difficult time in life of going from being a teenager with no real responsibilities to becoming the adult we all have to become whether we want to or not.
During this time, the enemy threw plenty of ideas, philosophies and “new” thoughts on religion my way in order to dissuade me from following the Truth. This came through other people sharing their philosophies with me, through the many new and different churches I tried out, and through fellow college mates. The one thing that seemed to pull me through all of this were the verses mentioned above.

There were times I could not feel God or sense God. I was not experiencing His power or presence. I felt all alone. And the temptation to follow some of the “new” thoughts or paths was there as well. It was then the Holy Spirit gave me these 3 verses. If you will notice, they all say the same thing. And God said it to me 3 times that day so I would hear what He was trying to say.

No matter what I was going through, no matter how bleak things seemed, no matter how confused I was or lost I seemed … I only had to look back on my life and remember the times where God was more real than ever … and this enabled me to remember and believe those times would once again be true in my life.

I will YET praise HIM …

Things will always get bad at times in life. Ours is to remember that God is God during the bad times just as well as the good times. Ours is to be faithful to Him no matter what.