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Tuesday 10/17/23

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📺️ Psalm 43 🔊

 ¹Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

 ²For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

 ³O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

 ⁴Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.

 ⁵Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Written By: God through Inspiration

Penned By: David, Asaph, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, Moses, and the Sons of Korah

Date Penned: (1440-586 BC)

Overview: Poetry for the Expression of Praise and Worship to God (c 1-150)

Theme: The Second Book of Psalms (c 42-72)

Message: Hope in Discouragement (v 1-5)

Psalms 43 Commentary

(43:1) Light and Truth - The Psalm writer asked God to send his light and truth to guide him to the holy hill, the location of the temple, where he would meet God. God's truth provides the right path to follow (see 1 John 2:27), and God's light provides the clear vision to follow it (see 1John 1:5). If you feel surrounded by darkness and uncertainty, follow God's light and truth. He will guide you. 

(43:3) Holly Hill - The "holy hill" is Mount Zion in Jerusalem, the city that David named as Israel's capital. The temple was built there as the place for the people to meet God in worship and prayer.

Each day, we walk through the Bible chapter by chapter, making an application of our text to help us grow in the Lord. Many applications can be made from each day's text. Today, we continue in the Book of Psalms with Chapter 43. In our text today, we see a theme of how our hope in a time of discouragement - only comes from God. The God who made it all - owns it all - controls it all, and can deliver you from your troubles. In making an application, we see that many place their hope in many things: their money, their abilities, their health, their strength, their influence, their power, the list goes on and on, but these things come and go. We can only truly trust the Lord because he owns it all. How about you? What are you placing your trust in? Let us learn from our Psalm and text today to remember that we are to put our hope in the Lord, for He controls it all.