Has God Forgotten About Me?

No individual can really be educated apart from a knowledge of the Bible, and the book of Psalms in this grand book contains some of the most beautiful and thought-provoking passages and prose of all the world's great literature. I, for one, marvel at the profound emotional insights which you find described here—the same emotions and feelings we grapple with today. In Psalm 42 and 43, which were probably written as one, the writer voices a recurring theme. Three times he asks, "Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me?" Three times, he speaks of the solution: "Put your hope in God," he says, adding, "for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God."