Send Your Light and Truth

Ps. 43:3-4

Send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me; let them bring me to Your holy hill and to Your dwelling! Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise You with the lyre , O God, my God.

Ps. 43 seems to continue the depression of Ps. 42. In this psalm the psalmist felt forgotten and rejected by God. He was questioning his own emotional state and his oppression by the enemy. Perhaps he was not accepting his life as God had ordained it. But yet in this bad time of personal misery, he knew enough to ask God to send His light and truth. He wanted to be led back to God's dwelling and to His altar. He wanted to praise God as His joy, a joy he sorely needed. Even though he definitely wanted to be rid of the depression, the depression had a strong hold on him! In the last verse of the psalm he said, Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me?  Even with the knowledge of God as His help, he was plagued by these negative feelings. Yet, he ended the psalm with hope, the same hope that ended Ps. 43. Hope in God; for I shall again praise HIm, my salvation and my God. He would again praise God! He could hope in the character and the truth of His God. I too can hope in the character and the truth of my God. When the dark days come, and they will, God will be my joy and my hope.

Father,

Keep me living in the truth of who You are. Let me never forget that You are my joy and my salvation. 

In Jesus name,

Amen