Be Still And Know

READ: Psalm 42:11 NLT Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again—my Saviour and my God! We all face times of discouragement when nothing seems to be going right. That’s an inevitable part of the ups and downs of life. But sometimes those times of discouragement can dominate all our thinking, and that is clearly how it was for the psalmist. He reflects that his tears have been his food day and night and people were taunting him all day long with the words, “Where is your God?” He thinks back on those happy days when he would lead the worship procession up to the Temple, but that’s all a distant memory now. He paints a very sad picture. But his feelings of despair don’t have the last word, because amidst the grief he knows that God will not let him down. He puts his hope in God knowing that there will come a time when he will be able to praise God again. We are told that depression is extremely common and that about 50% of people will experience it at some t