Psalms 43:1-5
This psalm is linked with the preceding one as emphasizing in its last verse by repetition the words of vv. 5, 11 in Psalms 42:1-11. My soul often needs to be exhorted thus not to be cast down, but to hope in God and to praise Him again and again. He has not only become my salvation; He is also "my God," the One on whom I depend unceasingly, the source of my strength (v. 2).
His light and His truth will lead me to intelligent worship, if I ask Him for this as the psalmist does here (vv. 3, 4).
The expression emphasized yesterday: "the God of my life" is complemented in v. 4 by another very remarkable expression: "God my exceeding joy". Dear fellow believers, is God the whole source of our happiness? Is He the object of our exceeding joy as He was for the Lord Jesus (Luke 10:21)? Knowing such a God as we do, should our soul be cast down or troubled? "Let not your heart be troubled" – the Lord said to His disciples – "ye believe in God, believe also in me" (John 14:1); and elsewhere: "Have faith in God" (Mark 11:22). Faith is the great remedy for all the sadness or restlessness that the world can inflict upon us.