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Hope in God.

Psalm 42

As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me continually, “Where is your God?” 4 These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival. 5 Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation 6 and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. 7 Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me. 8 By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. 9 I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” 10 As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me continually, “Where is your God?” 11 Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.

 

The New Year has dawned.  And with it ever year comes resolutions.  Every year we resolve to do a number of things.  I won’t ask for a show of hands but I wonder how many of us made resolutions last year and found our resolve dissolving by February or March?

Because of our inability to follow through and be faithful to our promises many people refuse to make resolutions.  They know they are not going to keep them, so why lie.  That’s fair enough.  However, I take a different approach.

I mostly like resolutions.  As the saying goes, “If you don’t know where you want to go, then any road will take you there.”  I often remind myself that if I don’t plan what I want to do, I will usually do what I did not plan.

Nevertheless, I want to suggest to you at least one resolution.  If you make resolutions, I want to encourage you to add this one to the top of your list.  And if you don’t make resolutions, please consider just this one exception for the coming year – and hopefully for years to come.

Here it is.  Say to yourself, “This year I resolve to Hope in God.”

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