Big Idea: God writes the lyrics of our souls in the Psalms. Psalm 42:1–4 1 As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” 4 These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival. Dry spiritual seasons will come. Psalm 42:5–6, 9 5 Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation 6 and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. 9 I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” God can handle our emotions… God can handle our “why?” Psalm 42:1–2 1 As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. Lean into a thirst that only God can satisfy. We are not called to “obey our thirst” we are called to “choose our thirst.” Next Week’s Text: Psalm 81