''HE RESTORETH MY SOUL''

HE RESTORETH MY SOUL.? SURELY IT WOULD BE ASSUMED THAT ANYONE IN THE GOOD SHEPHERD'S CARE COULD NEVER BECOME SO DISTRESSED IN SOUL AS TO NEED RESTORATION. EVEN DAVID, THE AUTHOR OF THE PSALM, WHO WAS MUCH LOVED OF GOD, KNEW WHAT IT WAS TO CAST DOWN AND DEJECTED. HE TASTED DEFEAT IN HIS LIFE AND FELT THE  FRUSTRATION OF HAVING FALLEN UNDER TEMPTATION. DAVID WAS ACQUAINTED WITH BITTERNESS OF FEELING HOPELESS AND WITHOUT STRENGHT IN HIMSELF.. IN PSALM 42:11 HE CRIES OUT, ''WHY ART THOU CAST DOWN, O MY SOUL? AND WHY ART THOU DISQUIETED WITHIN ME? HOPE THOU IN GOD....'' A CAST SHEEP IS A VERY PATHETIC SIGHT. LYING ON ITS BACK, ITS FEET IN THE AIR, STRUGGLING TO STAND UP, WITHOUT SUCCESS, SOMETIMES IT WILL BLEAT A LITTLE FOR HELP, IF THE OWNER DOES NOT ARRIVE ON THE SCENE WITHIN A REASONABLY SHORT TIME, THE SHEEP WILL DIE, A SHEEP MAN LOOK OVER HIS FLOCK EVERY DAY, IF A  SHEEP HAVE BEING DOWN FOR A WHILE, THE CIRCULATION TO THE LEGS WILL OFTEN TOOK A LITTLE TIME TO WARM UP, WHEN THE SHEEP STARTED TO WALK AGAIN THEY OFTEN JUST STUMBLED, STAGGERED AND COLLAPSED IN A HEAP ONCE MORE.AT THIS POINT IT IS IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT THAT SIMILARLY IN CHRISTIAN LIFE THERE IS AN EXCITING AND COMFORTING PARALLEL HERE.. MANY PEOPLE HAVE THE IDEA THAT WHEN A CHILD OF GOD FALLS, WHEN HE IS FRUSTRATED AND HELPLESS IN SPIRITUAL DILEMMA, GOD BECOMES DISGUSTED, FED-UP AND EVEN FURIOUS WITH HIM.. ONE OF THE GREAT REVELATIONS OF THE HEART OF GOD GIVEN TO US BY CHRIST IS THAT OF HIMSELF AS OUR SHEPHERD. HE HAS THE SAME IDENTICAL SENSATIONS OF ANXIETY.. CONCERN AND COMPASSION FOR CAST MEN AND WOMEN AS HE HAD FOR CAST DOWN SHEEP'S.. TURNING TO THE CHRISTIAN LIFE WE ARE CONFRONTED WITH THE SAME SORT OF PROBLEM, THERE IS A MAN OR WOMAN, WHO BECAUSE THEY MAY HAVE DONE WELL IN BUSINESS OR THEIR CAREERS OR THEIR HOMES, FEEL THEY ARE FLOURISHING AND HAVE 'ARRIVED''..NO WE NOT ARRIVED YET .!!!