When Your Soul Needs Something Special (Psalm 42:1-5) - Rev. Mark Lewis

from the book of Psalms at Psalm 42:es 1-5. Psalm 42 verses 1 through 5. And here is how the word of God reads. It says, "As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirst for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with

God? My tears have been my food day and night." While people say to me all day long, "Where is your God?" These things I remember as I pour out my soul. How I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the mighty one with shouts of joy and praise

among the festive throne. Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my savior and my God. You may be seated in the presence of the Lord. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of the Lord shall stand forever. Amen. I want to preach

for just a few moments from this sermon subject about when your soul needs something special. When your soul needs something special. Psalm 42 is a painfully honest psalm. The psalmist bears the very soul and expresses that something on the inside has gone terribly wrong for him. Psalm 42 described what it feels like to talk to

yourself in honest terms. about life turning in on you. We don't know all of the details about this psalm. We don't know for certain who wrote this particular psalm. Some conclude David. We don't have any definitive proof. There is no name in the superscription. But whomever it is, they share with us that sometimes it's

all right for you to tell the truth about how you really feel. This psalmist give you and I God honoring language to be able to express that I don't always feel so Christianly. I don't always feel so spiritual. And often in our church culture, we are taught to be dishonest because when we come to church, we cloak