God's Promise When – You Feel
Dejected
Almost always, we as Christians
bask in the sunshine of God’s Love and mercy and enjoy fellowship
and communion with him. We go to the mountain top, as it were, and
we, by faith, behold his glory. These are the times that we have the
full assurance of our salvation and eternal destiny, and we feel that
we are more than conquers with Christ.
Then, soon after our experiences
of great joy and the exhilaration of our victories in serving the
Lord, the dark storm clouds of the realities of our daily life gather
around us, and we find ourselves to have descended down into the
valley of depression and near despair. It is here, during the storms
of the reality of life, that we begin to doubt, and fear, and become
discouraged, dejected and cast down to the pits, it seems.
During these cycles in our
Christian experience, we must be on the alert of our mortal enemy,
Satan, who would grasp every oportunity to persuade us that our faith
and walk with the Lord is foolish, unreasonable, and profitless.
During these times it is very important to keep in mind the precious
promises of God that he has given in his word, the Holy Scriptures,
to lift us up and sustain us in our infirmities and trials of
affliction.
David, king of Israel, a man after
God's own heart, found himself in the valley of dejection, when he
asked himself the question: why art thou cast down, O my soul? “My
tears have been my meat, day and night, while they constantly say
unto me, where is thy God? When I remember these things, I pour out
my soul in me; for I had gone with the multitude. I went with them
to the house of God with the voice of joy and praise with a multitude
that kept holiday.” Psalm 42: 3, 4.
David had descended from a holiday
of joy and praise to a valley of dejection where he asked, where is
thy God? Now he asks himself: “why art thou cast down, O my soul,
and why art thou disquieted in me?” Verse 5. Then God brings to
his remembrance all the ways in which he had blessed David and given
him many victories in the past. “O my God, my soul is cast down
within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan.
And of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar,” verse 6
“Yet the Lord will command his
loving kindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be
with me. And my prayer unto the God of my life. “I will say unto
God my rock, why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of
the oppression of the enemy?” verse 9. “Why art thou cast down,
O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God:
for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and
my God.” verse 11
In times of darkiness and despair,
we need to remember all the blessings and victories that we have
already received from the Lord, and search the scriptures diligently
to discover all the precious promises that God has given us to light
our darkness.
Jesus has promised us that if we will
draw nigh to him, he will draw nigh to us, and we will find rest for
our soul. “Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me:
for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest for your
soul. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.” Matthew 11:
28-30.
God has promised to help us in
times of discouragement and trouble. “Let us therefore come bodly
to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to
help in time of need.” Hebrews 4: 16.
God has promised to lift us up when we
come humbly before him. “Humble yourselves in the sight of the
Lord, and he shall lift you up.” James 4: 10.
If we will diligently search the
scriptures, and find and believe all the promises of God, no matter
how dark the night, we will find it true that “.......weeping may
endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” Psalm 30: 5
“Thou has turned for me my
mourning into dancing, thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me
with gladness to the end that my glory may sing praises to thee and
not be silent, O Lord my God; I will give thanks unto thee forever.”
Psalm 30: 11, 12.
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