Yet...

Hopelessness leads to despair.  From that comes a multiple of maladies that we see played out as we are bombarded by the media.  In every outlet, be it television, web, newspaper or radio, good news is scarce.  Instead, we see the effects of hopelessness and despair.

Christians are not exempt from the effects of tragedy, but the way we handle it should be a part of our "evangelism" to a world in need of hope.  I praise God for the Bible that gives me His divine plan and purpose for us, His creatures.  Time and time again, I have been renewed in my thinking with a hope that is beyond understanding.

The Psalm is a book full of writers who loved God but had real problems.  That's what makes it such a therapeutic book.  In chapter twenty-two, David cries out in his well-read messianic Psalm, "Why have You forsaken me?"  One of the big issues in mulling over our problems is loneliness.  I am forsaken!  Notice David says, "My God".  God is personal to him.  But God is not delivering him from this problem.  He says, "I'm groaning" alone!  "You do not answer...I have no rest."

What keeps David from despair?  "YET"!  David thinks rightly!  "Yet You are holy...enthroned...
trusted...disappoint not."  Whatever happens he trusts in a God Who is in control and there is hope and stability there.  He cries out again after remembering his great God, but again he comes back to the right thinking of "Yet".  "You have been my God from my mother's womb."

At the end of that Psalm, David exults in his God-given thoughts with, "Posterity will serve Him; It will be told of the Lord to the coming generation.  They will come and will declare His righteousness to a people who will be born, that He has performed it."  That's true, because here I am declaring to myself and to you.