Comment: Psalm
42:1-2 – As the deer pants for the water
brooks, 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? (literally: see the face God) My tears have been my food day and night.
While they continually say to me. Where is your God? If you were to trace
these men’s ancestry you would find traces of reaching back to the sons of
Levi, through Samuel, King Saul, and Benjamin. It is an interesting search. In
it you would find that this family at various times in history were expert
warriors with the ‘bow and the sling’, fighting tools of their day. At one time
one of the Korahites, Mattithiah, "the first-born
of Shallum the Korahite," held "the office of trust over the things
that were baked in pans" (1 Chronicles 9:31).
More interesting, however, than the fighting Korahites who claimed succession
from Moses to Nehemiah, are the. "sons of Korah" who were somehow
connected with the service of song, whom King David enlisted these brothers to
lead his musicians.
Devotional: I do not know how you envision the people of
the Old Testament, some could think of these people as backward, uneducated and
barbaric. Yet if you study the people of the Old Testament you would find that
they were very like you and me. They were human, they had fears and tears just
as us. Psalm 42:1-2 – As the deer pants
for the water brooks, 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? (literally: see
the face God) My tears have been my food
day and night. While they continually say to me. Where is your God?
Psalm 42:4-5 – When I remember these things, I pour out my
soul within me. For I used to go with the multitude; I went with them to the
house of God. With the voice of joy, with the multitude that kept a pilgrim
feast. Why are you cast down O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me?
This contemplation of the
sons of Korah is relevant to our day. our pilgrimage to the house of the LORD
is not what it ought to be, IS IT? Why? because most of us worship God with our
lips, our soul is not involved. Thus, our soul is hungry for the fresh water,
the Living Water. Yes, we have tears during these emotional lips services that mean
little to God and our soul. The souls of many people today live in a disquieted
condition, these need to be revived.
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