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Enjoy Life, Enjoy God


Dale Patterson

INVITATION

June 9, 2011

When words will not explain what's going on in the swirl of our lives, I have an invitation for us.

 
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.
                                                 -- Psalm 42:7 TNIV
 
Psalm 42 is a "deep" psalm.  Something big, deep, stirring troubles the prayer.  And three times the cry repeats: "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."  Three times.
 
Today might be a day that finds you just floating along, but it might be a deep and stirring day for you as well.  Here's the invitation: Close your eyes and pray these simple words above.  These words are a call to God that words cannot express, but also point to the direction and source of hope.  Go ahead, give it a try.  Better yet, make it part of the rhythm of your discipleship.
 
Joyfully,
 
Dale Patterson