The Psalm

Psalm 42 (CSB)
For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.

1 As a deer longs for flowing streams, so I long for you, God.

2 I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and appear before God?

3 My tears have been my food day and night, while all day long people say to me, “Where is your God?”

4 I remember this as I pour out my heart: how I walked with many, leading the festive procession to the house of God, with joyful and thankful shouts.

5 Why, my soul, are you so dejected? Why are you in such turmoil? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him, my Savior and my God.

6 I am deeply depressed; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your billows have swept over me.

8 The LORD will send his faithful love by day; his song will be with me in the night— a prayer to the God of my life.

9 I will say to God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”

10 My adversaries taunt me, as if crushing my bones, while all day long they say to me, “Where is your God?”

11 Why, my soul, are you so dejected? Why are you in such turmoil? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him, my Savior and my God.

The Prayer

Only Giver of Life 
When you found me
  I was a swollen corpse
  at the bottom of the ocean
  I was a dried up river
  in the middle of a burning desert
  I was frozen death
  in a icy wasteland

I was completely dead
  I had no life to call upon you
  I had no heart to beat towards you
  My hands and feet were death
  and I stunk like a rotting corpse
  with sin-maggots eating 
  away at my terrible heart

Surely I was left for dead

But you saw me
  and not only had pity on me
  but more so
  you gave me favor
  you lavished your grace
  and you extended your mercy
  You saw me
  in my desperate wickedness
  my unholy wretchedness
  my perversion wanton lusts
  and you loved me
  you cared for me
  you saved me
  you predestined me
  you called me
  you justified me
  and only because your promises
  are the only sure thing 
  you have glorified me

You are my Lord and my God
  there is none like you

Amen and amen