Shalom,


Some say that Psalms 42 and 43 were actually supposed to be one entire Psalm. Psalm 42:11 and Psalm 43:5 are exactly the same:


5 Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me and be disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, Who is the help of my countenance, and my God.


Don't "yet praise Him" Do it NOW! Stop everything you are doing and just PRAISE HIM! Your day will take on a whole new perspective, and it will be a GOOD one! AMEN! Here is a new song from Hillsong United called "Yours Forever". I LOVE the perspective!

Going right along with that is 2 Timothy 1:8 (Message Bible):


8 So don't be embarrassed to speak up for our Master or for me, His prisoner. Take your share of suffering for the Message along with the rest of us. We can only keep on going, after all, by the power of God, Who first saved us and then called us to this holy work. We had nothing to do with it. It was all His idea, a gift prepared for us in Jesus long before we knew anything about it. But we know it now. Since the appearance of our Savior, nothing could be plainer: death defeated, life vindicated in a steady blaze of light, all through the work of Jesus. 


GLORY TO GOD! Go ahead and listen to that song again! Hallelujah!


Isaiah 3:10-11:


10 Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds. 11 Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with them, for what their hands have done shall be done to them.


That is such a wonderful promise for those who choose to do things God's way! We who are under the New Covenant have been MADE the righteousness of God (2 Corinthians 5:21). It SHALL be well with us, WHEN we choose to obey God's Word! We certainly don't have to give a thought for the wicked. God WILL deal rightly with them! Pray for them to receive Jesus as Savior and become the righteous! Verse 11 also says that "what their hands have done shall be done to them". This has been fulfilled again and again in the lives of the Jewish people! As we read through the Old Testament, we read of things that some of the kings and rulers did to the people of other lands, and some even to their own people. God abhors what happened during the Holocaust. We should too! BUT, it is more understandable when you read THIS verse along with some of the things that happened! But WOE has ALWAYS been to those at whose hands God's people were harmed! Be a person who blesses others, always! AMEN!


Shalom in Him!