Psalm 42:5,11

Because they're the same verse.

Here we go.

Why are you downcast, O my soul?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.

In this Psalm, the author repeats these lines twice. A repetition that I believe that comes from deep within the soul of this man. He asks himself why. Why am I so sad when I know of God? Why am I so disturbed when I know of my Savior?

The Psalmist knows, but cannot trust in the Lord.

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?" - Matthew 6:25

This is me. I worry about the future and what God has in store for me. What? This is a oxymoron. I worry about what God has in store for me? This is truth; yet I cannot help it.

I will continue to pray for understanding for I know my God is a God whose hope does not disappoint.

Amen.