Psalm 43:2–5 (NIV): 

      2 You are God my stronghold. 

         Why have you rejected me? 

         Why must I go about mourning, 

         oppressed by the enemy? 

      3 Send me your light and your faithful care, 

         let them lead me; 

         let them bring me to your holy mountain, 

         to the place where you dwell. 

      4 Then I will go to the altar of God, 

         to God, my joy and my delight. 

         I will praise you with the lyre, 

         O God, my God. 

      5 Why, my soul, are you downcast? 

         Why so disturbed within me? 

         Put your hope in God, 

         for I will yet praise him, 

         my Savior and my God.

Fear is our greatest enemy. Our soul is downcast because of the unknown and yet our hope is in God. The writer of Psalms reminds us to run to God who is our stronghold. The Lord is faithful and my joy and delight needs to be found in Him. He is the praise of our hearts and the one who is always faithful even in the face of the unknown. Oh my soul, why are you so downcast? Remember the great acts of God. His promises are true and his mercies are evermore. Rejoice in the truth and trust in His ways. 

Pastor Aaron