A PSALM FOR THE SOUL
When you are discouraged and “cast down,” learn to encourage yourself in the Lord (1 Sam. 30:6). Bring your soul to the Lord. Instruct your soul to “hope in God” and “praise Him.” Have you not yet learned that a fresh encounter with God will change the disposition of your soul and therefore your “countenance,” putting a smile in place of a frown? Pull your soul’s hope off its idols and put its hope on God.
When we look inward to find the source of our soul’s discouragement, we should not be surprised to discover that we have set our hope on something other that the Lord. Let us instruct our souls to hope in God!
PRAYER: Dear Father, we worship You for today for You are worthy. We praise You for our salvation through Christ Jesus. We thank You for the many blessings You have bestowed on us. We pull our hope of worldly and material things and put them wholly on You. In Jesus’ name, amen.