Psa 43:1-5

Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation;
O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man!

For You are the God of my strength; why have You rejected me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me;
Let them bring me to Your holy hill
And to Your dwelling places.

Then I will go to the altar of God,
To God my exceeding joy;
And upon the lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God.

Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why are you disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.

David needed deliverance.
David desired vindication.
David knew that the Lord was his strength, yet David felt abandoned.
David cried for the Lord to send His Light and His truth to lead him.
David desired to go to the altar of God to praise Him.
David called God “my exceeding joy”…literally means “the gladness of my joy”.

Is the Lord God our exceeding joy…at all times?

Do what David did.
Examine yourself, honestly.
Hope in God.
The Lord will lift up your countenance.

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