Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God. (Psalm 43: 5)
What we know and what we feel can be in conflict. The explicit and implicit are often wary of one another.
In this psalm the appetites and emotion (nephesh) have lost confidence in God. The psalmist writes of a growling, murmuring, sometimes roaring commotion within him. He feels rejected.
But while the feeling is real, the psalmist knows this is not reality. He knows that God is steadfast and whole, even as we are often inconsistent and of two (or more) minds.
O 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 harp, O God, my God. (Psalm 43: 3-4)
What we know and what we feel can be in conflict. The explicit and implicit are often wary of one another.
In this psalm the appetites and emotion (nephesh) have lost confidence in God. The psalmist writes of a growling, murmuring, sometimes roaring commotion within him. He feels rejected.
But while the feeling is real, the psalmist knows this is not reality. He knows that God is steadfast and whole, even as we are often inconsistent and of two (or more) minds.
O 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 harp, O God, my God. (Psalm 43: 3-4)
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