Why not answer the calumny that we worship a tyrant on the throne of heaven by saying: "This Jesus, the deliverer of captives, the opener of sight to the blind, the friend of the poor, is He in whom we see the Father. Psalm 42:2 - BGT. Gelijk een hinde die naar waterbeken smacht, zo smacht mijn ziel naar U, o God. Psalm 42:2 My soul thirsts for God, the living God. How apt it is to degenerate into a cold calculation of profit and loss, and to have for soul Pride instead of Self-surrender. It is in the depths, through billow after billow rolling over it, and yet at the very moment indulges in blessed memories and hopeful faith. We shall not there be independent, of course, of constant supplies from the great central Fulness, any more than we are here. At the feet of Him who could say, "He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father," we understand, and rest upon the certainty, that God is moral as well as intellectual "light, and that in Him is no darkness at all." Psalm 137, which is also an exilic Psalm). 2. Is it a lie? It does not concern itself with the origin of the universe, "if it ever had one," or with what happens to living beings after death. Psalm 142 THE LONESOME VALLEY . Cox, Expositions, 3rd series, p. 109. The Paperback Bible presents the Bible by the Book and is designed to be portable, readable, and truly personal with ample margins for notations. It was all so quiet. If I, made by God who knew what He was doing when He made me, am formed with these deep necessities, with these passionate longings, — then it cannot but be that it is intended that they should be to me a means of leading me to Him, and that there they should be satisfied. This Levite thought that he wanted Jerusalem, and the Temple, and the sacrifices, and the feasts, and the music. When You’Re Depressed, Your Main Need Is to Seek God Himself, Not Just Relief. the loving relations between God and the saint are not for a moment disturbed. FOR THE WHOLE OF THIS MOANING CRY IS ONE CONTINUOUS PRAYER. Science, it is said, does not need such an hypothesis as God, who does not exist apart from the mind and imagination of man. But experience says that, in the very greatest emergency, let the thought of God come in, and virtue in her utmost peril is secure. I open the pages of the Gospel story, and straight I come across Jesus Christ. And we may ask, What is virtue when it is not fed from this root? II. There is a world of difference between the light being kept out because the eye is closed, and its being hidden behind a dense black cloud. We want to know, and till we know we cannot rest. I. They must take notice of God then, though they do not now. These ordinances have this for their great end, to bring us near God. When shall I come and appear before God? Psalm 42 vers 1 't Hijgend hert, der jacht ontkomen, Schreeuwt niet sterker naar 't genot Van de frisse waterstromen, Dan mijn ziel verlangt naar God. That brings the religious nature nearer to its object than anything else. I. 3 There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. II. "He who has loved us bears us through, And makes us more than conquerors too!" 3, 10.) out of x the miry bog,. But what if that be false? My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. They baffle the logic of the intellect; but the heart has a logic and an eloquence too, that are all its own. VII. God is there. Are you cultivating your religious faculty, or are you neglecting it, and allowing it to atrophy? When can I enter and see the face of God? You and I want to know, nearer, more precisely His nature and His character. 1 For the leader. True, we are greatly blessed by this belief in mind, in heart, in spirit, and yet, on the Atheistic creed, we owe all to a cheat. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God? If it be true that there are, as part of the universal human experience, however overlaid and stifled, these necessities, the very existence of the necessities affords a presumption, before all evidence, that, somehow and somewhere, they shall be supplied. PSALM 42:2. AT TIMES OF SORE DEPRESSION, THE BELIEVER LONGS FOR THE JOYS OF BYGONE DAYS. Oh, cynic though you be, careless though you be — nay, indifferent or hostile though you be to serious thought — tell me what need finds utterance in their voices? When shall I come and appear before God? 5. The first thing that is needed for the culture of the religious faculty is the careful observance of the Sabbath. Experience is the test of that principle. Psalm 42:2 - BGT. FROM A RIFT IN THE BLACK CLOUD THERE IS A GLEAM OF SUNSHINE. Then all is not lost. I. And with a great voice, they exclaimed, 'He made us.' In the heathen world. How little of this there is amongst man. 1, 6, 9.) The evil one will take advantage of our moments of distress to insinuate racking doubts. As they drank, it flowed fast, cool and refreshing. Psalm 42:2(NASB) Verse Thoughts The intense heart-yearnings of the Psalmist for the Lord and his deep pleading enquiry to know the whereabouts of his God, resounds like the repetitive tolling of a bell through the intensely personal pleadings of Korah, in his Psalm - before he finally reached victory in his heart and a deep satisfaction within his soul. II. Psalm 42:1 In many Hebrew manuscripts Psalms 42 and 43 constitute one psalm. A startling figure! Psalm 42:2: God the Object of Religion: Canon Liddon. Psalm 42:1 In Hebrew texts 42:1-11 is numbered 42:2-12. Witness the often quoted passage of the Confessions in which he tells us why nature was in his eyes so beautiful, by telling us how nature had led him up to God. It is a clamorous cry which comes from, which proclaims abroad, a need of man. The gods of the heathen were dead gods. And how, as years go on, we are conscious of the passion of regret which rises as we gaze behind, athwart the receding years? 1. Very often the taunt of the unbeliever is equivalent to this, when we are pointed to the weaknesses and distresses of the Church, and asked - How can your Christianity be Divine, if this is allowed? Now he is one of a mixed assembly, then all will be holy. Will any be so foolish as to mistake the absence of desire for food for the satisfaction and sustenance of his nature? C. I. But the assurance, "My grace is sufficient for thee," heartens us again. II. (Vers. Why is it that, in spite of all our reasoning, we still persist in clothing those early days of earliest childhood with a life which is not all their own? Be so in regard to God. At the time when this psalm was penned, its writer was unable to attend the house of God. BOOK TWO Psalms 42–72 -Yearning for God in the Midst of Distresses - To the Chief Musician. The thirst of the soul is as generic as the thirst of the body. The other opportunity for this kind of culture is prayer. II. The Ten Commandments, and especially the Gospel, are for this end. The Psalmist said, "My soul is athirst for God." All he can do is to ask that if He is, He will reveal Himself. If there be any who have not passed through any such experience as that in this psalm, these words will be wonderfully uninteresting, if not unintelligible. It is often an intellectual thirst, a thirst for an explanation of the tangle and mystery of existence. Now we worship for preparation, there for enjoyment. * b. The Paperback Bible presents the Bible by the Book and is designed to be portable, readable, and truly personal with ample margins for notations. If the light of heaven is shut out, the soul will cry after it. Preach on topics including the inevitability of trials and storms, crying out to God, the provision, protection, and goodness of God, and hope for the future. But who are they who ask? "Is there a further cry?" He does not pretend that he is not disturbed by these taunts. They held that He prepared them for His appearing by teaching them to hope for it. For all seek happiness, though they know not what they mean. VI. And that he does ask courageously. - To the choirmaster. They wrote a powerful monograph about him the other day, and at the close drew a parallel between him and Christ. 2. II. God waits to meet our thirst. Psalm 42:2 God begeerte. There is A CONSCIOUS LONGING, IMPERFECT, BUT ANSWERED; AND THAT IS THE STATE OF GRACE — the beginning of religion in a man's soul. "I will say unto the God of my strength, Why hast Thou forgotten me? Let me put two sayings of Scripture side by side, "My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God" — "Father Abraham, send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue." And the reason why Christianity has been such a consolation to mankind is because it has so thoroughly answered. 1. Scripture: Psalm 1. Psalms THIRSTING FOR GOD Psalm 42:2. It is a merit of Auguste Comte to have recognized the necessity of some answer; and he tells us that it is our privilege and our business to love, reverence, and worship "a Being, immense and eternal — Humanity." It is the age of Pessimism, and men are asking, "Is life worth living?" I. Of. Exodus 23:17 Psalms 42:2 . Delighting in the Law of God Summer Psalms. He has found God as his God, as his "exceeding Joy;" but there are times in the experience of many such when all that they have known and realized of God's love seems like a dream of the past; when the light of heaven is partially or even totally eclipsed. 3.22.20 Psalm 42:1-5 As a doe pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. Thirst, as longing, is eternal; thirst, as aspiration after God, is the glory of heaven; thirst, as desire for more of Him, is the very condition of the celestial world, and the element of all its blessedness. She said, "I am so weak, I cannot think, I cannot pray, I cannot enjoy God at all." Presently we discover that body and mind are but the agents of the soul, which is the real self; and the soul's cry is for God, the living God. Here they appear in disguise, as saints; there openly as sinners. ... 2 42:2 Revocalization yields and see the face of God; 3 42:5 Hebrew the salvation of my face; ... Sermons on Psalm 42. 3. No, we believe in God the Father. Man is a composite being, body, mind, and soul. Oh! To each, every truth of the Christian creed has its own abiding import thence. Psalm 42:2 - NBV. If all these words are true, take heart. And because we are born for eternity, not for a moment, therefore, never, only by the satisfaction of the moral instincts, can this thirst be assuaged. 2 Samuel 14:32. this eager, unsatisfied humanity, what cries it for but Him! To assert God's presence in His works is one thing; to identify Him with them is another. Let the sinner then examine himself as to his state now. 1. 2. This may arise from bodily weakness, from overwhelming sorrows, or from mental and spiritual gloom. He found he could satisfy his cravings with no mere knowledge of God, no mere teachings about God. In some sense God's service stood in front of God. Call us at 888-634-2038. When the Psalmist says, "My soul is athirst," he certainly describes no rare or peculiar state of feeling. "The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth us from all sin." Psalm 42:2 - NBG. Sermons on Psalm 43. 4. It was not brought home to him while engaged in the Temple services. "Very." Nor are you, either, with all the forms of MEN'S CEASELESS ACTIVITY, in which art, genius, or political achievement have expressed themselves — none of these things will ever, can ever, satisfy the soul. Zoals een hinde smacht naar stromend water, zo smacht mijn ziel naar u, o God. The thirst of his soul could not be satisfied with anything but Him who both kindles and satisfies the thirst of all human souls. Who has not stood upon the hills at sunset and longed with a vague, wild, passionate longing to pass beyond the bounding clouds. No sermons for this chapter. Surely the enigma of our being, of the world, of that which is around us, in us, so beautiful, so strange, so startling, yet so real; surely the meaning of this extraordinary, this self-contradictory life — the explanation of this changing scene. III. And though changes of circumstance and the advance of the Divine dispensations have altered to some extent the relations between temple worship and home life, yet even now it is a sore privation to be debarred from the fellowship of saints, especially when other causes of depression are active at the same time; for in such a case the saints are shut out from the public service when they are most dependent on its helpful aid. All men, especially all women, know in some degree what it is to wish to be loved, to be thought about and cared for. Zoals een hert hevig verlangt naar water, zo verlang ik hevig naar U, God. All history shows that materialism cannot silence the religious yearnings of the soul of man. SermonAudio.com - Psalm 42 Sermons. THE REGION OF THE AFFECTIONS, where suns are always glorious, and sunsets only speak of brighter dawn. Appearance Before God Hereafter: Isaac Watte, D. D. Psalm 42:2: Appearing Before God: Psalm 42:2: From Man to God: Thomas G. Rose. THERE ARE MOMENTS OF TRIAL AND CALAMITY. And what would become of duty to our fellows were faith in the living God gone? 3. But they uttered them in their plain and simple meaning. The desire to know. ITS UNIVERSALITY. And I said to all the creatures that surrounded the doors of my fleshly senses, 'Ye have said to me of my God that ye are not He; tell me somewhat of Him.' In those days, "the Lord loved the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob;" and on many grounds the worship in the courts of Zion played a very large part in the spiritual delights of the saints. The cessation from toil, the preaching of the Gospel, the atmosphere of peace, the influence of united worship, tend to call the religious nature out, encouraging it to revel in its native element. The quenchings of the thirst come in the soul-communion with God, in openness to God, in conscious kindness with God, in holy joy in Him. The thirst of the soul is as generic as the thirst of the body. (Ver. Can that thought, then, be false? What unhappy clogs these fleshly, sinful bodies are to the mind. What, then, are its necessities? "No; I think I loved her more, if anything." The one who asks for more of Jesus and keeps on asking will receive. The late Mrs. Porter, widow of a missionary at Madras, assured the writer that her husband and herself often came across instances of this sort, and said, "Oh, if Christian people did but know how men long after God, they surely would hasten to send them the news of his love!" It can scarce understand itself; but "He knoweth our frame," with all its complicated and vexing play of doubt and chiding, of hope and fear. AN EARNEST LONGING AFTER DIVINE ORDINANCES. For you and I are each possessors of a mysterious gift. Julius Caesar? In the awakened soul, when the first throbbings of the renewed life are felt, the desire after God becomes intelligent, clear, and strong; the soul craves its God, in whom alone it can find light, pardon, friendship, power, to the full extent of its longings. "The Lord will command his loving-kindness," etc. Our God never did, never will, never can, desert the soul that leans on him. And even if the strength is so feeble that the tongue cannot cry, "Father I" yet the heart will We were once visiting a dear friend in sickness. Now, with many discouragements; then, with everlasting consolations. I. Today's sermon is about finding our hope when we're at the end of our rope, and how vital hope is, and what we can do to regain our hope as seen in what King David wrote in Psalm 62. Who shall separate us from his love? II. Praise In Time of Pain. Sin! I am told in Revelation that there is a God, supreme in power, of essential spotless holiness, the Absolute of Perfection, the Changeless in Beauty, comprehending thus in Himself, it would seem, all imagined or imaginable objects of the desiring mind. 2. In fact it is only the love of God that can thoroughly satisfy the heart. III. Psalm 42:2 German Bible Alphabetical: and appear before can come for go God I living meet My shall soul the thirsts When with OT Poetry: Psalm 42:2 My soul thirsts for God (Psalm Ps Psa.) DEISM: this likewise fails because it reduces God to a mere force: and —. How can that which is purely physical touch the sense which appreciates a moral world? Psalm 42:1-3.—F. and y set my feet upon a rock,. They were unable to perform any of the acts of men; could neither see nor feel nor walk. "WHEN SHALL I COME AND APPEAR BEFORE GOD?" An unrivalled picture! Here, too, the psalmist is, in the strictest sense, the man. CAN THAT CRY BE ANSWERED? I. MATERIALISM. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. Would that such moments were oftener and more abiding. 2. Are we believing a lie? See the curiosity of the child, so keen, so active, so simple, that you and I, in the enervating languor of later life, might well wish we had it back again. What could He do more in order to convince us that He is not merely a Force or an Intelligence, but a Heart? "What matters it to me" — so every one of you may say — "if though all in this congregation each find the satisfaction of his wants, I yet miss mine?" (Vers. To be sure that God lived, in the sense of being active, interested, really concerned in his concerns. That field, that flower, that corner of the street, that dear old house, that well-known room — how much gladder, sweeter, better, as we say, than such things, such places howl Why is it, this sweet, this sad regret? PSALM 142. He was not to pursue a god of pleasure or wealth or fame, nor any work of his own hands or conception of his own mind. I. Who has not neared that bottomless gulf and breathed the malaria which hangs over it? FIRM BELIEF IN THE ESPECIAL PRESENCE OF GOD IN THE ORDINANCES OF PUBLIC WORSHIP. The conscience, although generally a very quiet element in our nature, may become a very clamorous one. "He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with good.". Scripture Psalm Sort Bible Verse. "Was she not too ill to speak to you? 2 Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. In the one did we feel as she did whose sad words we have quoted; or was it in the other that we felt that soundness and sanity were come to us again? His omnipresence is a necessary attribute of His Deity; while if He could be identified with nature He would cease to be. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. IV. But where is there anything in all this to satisfy the thirst for God of which in his highest moments man is so conscious? It is cast down, and yet chides itself for being cast down. STILL, THE CHILDLIKE HEART MUST CRY OUT, "GOD!" Psalm 42:1 Title: Probably a literary or musical term; Psalm 42:4 See Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain. Ah! Not, mark you, a sinless and Divine representative of the race, such as we Christians adore Jesus. It came to him when he was away from his usual scones, and when he was placed in unusual circumstances. Then there is —. And then he was able to say to his vexed soul, "O put thy trust in ,God, for I will yet thank Him, which is the help of my countenance and my God." Scripture: Psalm 1. He knew that all men in the nations round him were pursuing gods. 5. The intense heart-yearnings of the Psalmist for the Lord and his deep pleading enquiry to know the whereabouts of his God, resounds like the repetitive tolling of a bell through the intensely personal pleadings of Korah, in his Psalm - before he finally reached victory in his heart and a deep satisfaction within his soul. It is as common as the thirst of the body. The Truth which seems so essential to the soul's health, has it no basis in reality? If so, thank God the Father for His love, for indeed He loves you; honour the bleeding wounds whence flowed the precious blood; praise the eternal Spirit, through whom the sacrifice was offered, and by whom you are sanctified. The soul that thirsts for the Lord and pants for God and keep on and on thirsting and panting for Him is the one for whom the Lord Himself will provide His deep well of satisfaction, brimming to overflowing with the refreshing waters of His life - living water that revives, restore,s revitalizes and reinvigorates the man or woman whose inner being “thirsteth' for more of Jesus. But let the cause be what it may, it is agony to the saint when he can neither see, nor feel, nor find his God (see Job 23:3-10; also Psalm 21:1, and our notes thereon). .... God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son." And however broken the prayer may be, it is real, it is intense, it is wrung out of the necessities of a living soul. Pleasure was a god, wealth was a god, fame was a god. I. It cries out for deliverance from temptation and sin. All men have it because they are men. "They say daily unto me, Where is thy God?" He wanted personal relations. I thirst for God, the living God. Your duties then … ITS CULTURE. Then the longing of my better self is to be delivered. Who can believe it? Religion is an element of human life everywhere, and everywhere it is an ideal and a refining element. June 30, 2013 Posted in 2013 / Audio Sermons / Pastor Terry Defoe / Psalm Sermons / Sermons / ^Psalms. 4. This stands high in the world of thought. Learn more. Why go I thus heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me?" It was all so wild, so free, so open. II. It cannot see God, cannot feel him, yet knows he is there. Sermons from Psalms Trees Planted by the Water: How to Get Started Right in 2002 (Psalm 1) When the Foundations are Destroyed (Psalm 11) To Every Generation: (Psalm 100:5) If … This yearning after God shows itself in what is best in the several religions of the world. 2. It gives an example of a Syrian raid (e.g., 2 Kgs. Psalm 41:2 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: … 3 My soul thirsts for God, the living God. The routine of life prevents our troubling about the thirsting of the soul, but the routine of life never allays the thirst. SERMONS ON PSALMS. Guard against hypocrisy in worship. Lees Psalm 42 online (BB) Zoals een hinde smacht naar stromend water, zo smacht mijn ziel naar u, o God. That gift is the mystery of life, and it makes the little lad whom you and I met wandering half-clothed and ill-fed and uncared-for an object of more arresting interest than the savage mystery of the wild Atlantic. But these dear ones pass away, and we find, as life goes on, that after all in the world of the affections, that old, strange law that pervades one branch of the contrast prevails: affection can stimulate, it can support, it can console, it can delight, it can lead to delirium at moments, but it does not satisfy. Is it not the same, the world-wide, world-old thought of the poor Judaean exile on the wild Abarim hills? Far better to hear a man who prays as if he had something to pray for, than one who prays as if he must pray for something. does any answer come? Beyond everything else, it must have imperious claims upon the time and thought and working power of every human being who has ever felt, in any serious degree, the unspeakable solemnity of life and death. Jan 3, 1999. It meant, not that they thought there was less need than we think there is, of preparation for meeting God, but that they felt they could not prepare themselves, and that God Himself was preparing them. 1. Nothing" — so says one" but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite Pathos of human life." He looked back to the time when he used to accompany the throng and to lead them in procession to the sanctuary. What would become of charity and all her tender ministries? (NLT)Psalm 42: 1-2 - As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God. (Vers. IV. We have all known it in friend, sweetheart, wife, child, which have called forth the dear expressions of that strong heart that beats in Englishmen. Psalms 42:2. 1. IV. 4 My tears have been my bread day and night, c. as they ask me every day, “Where is your God?” d Many will b see and fear,. In fact it is now generally acknowledged that the blossom and flower of every civilization is its religion, and even the most sceptical of men will now sometimes allow that the rational satisfaction of man's religious nature is, and always will be, the greatest desideratum of the human race. PANTHEISM also, because if God be in everything He is in human crimes as well as in human virtues. He craved for personal contact. Men thirst after riches, honour, rank, etc., and yet the raging thirst of the spirit remains unquenched. Failure takes the heart out of us. There God will be on the throne of judgment; here He is on the throne of grace. But there is a blessed assembly of better worshippers above. 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