Renew Your Soul
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng. Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? – Psalm 42:1-5a And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul? – Matthew 16:26 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. – Genesis 2:7 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. – Genesis 2:19a For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return. – Genesis 3:19b Genesis 1:27, Genesis 4:11-12, Ecclesiastes 2:22-23 Our souls find rest in God Alone Psalm 62:1, Matthew 11:28-29 1) Be Still before God. Be still, and know that I am God… Psalm 46:10 Psalm 131:1-2 2) Wait for God. Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him… Psalm 37:7 Psalm 130:5-6 3) Reflect on God’s goodness. Let my soul be at rest again, for the Lord has been good to me. He has saved me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling. And so I walk in the Lord’s presence as I live here on earth! – Psalm 116:7-9 The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.” – Exodus 14:14