Remember

As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for You, O God.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.

When shall I come and appear before God?

My tears have been my food day and night,

While they say to me all the day long, "Where is your God?"

My soul is cast down within me;

therefore I remember You...

at night, His song is with me,

a prayer to the God of my life...

Why are you cast down, O my soul,

and why are you in turmoil within me?

Hope in God; for I shall again praise Him,

my salvation and my God.

-Pieces of Psalm 42

I just pray-read this scripture,

     and I

          remembered.

I remembered what God has done in my life.

I remembered knowing He was real.

I remembered being on the mountaintop,

     and knowing I was being sent into the valley,

     expecting the opposition to be overt

     and easy to spot,

     but now I see that it's not.

     It creeps in stealthily --

apathy

     laziness

          negativity

               doubt

I remembered His promises.

"Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart."

"When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take care of me."

"Seek first the kingdom of God... and everything else will be added unto you."

"If God is for me, who can be against me?"

"The Lord is my portion and my cup."

I remembered His promises, too many to count!

I remember!