The Bible Study Podcast, episode 383. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of Psalms with Psalm 42.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. I may have made a few references to this

Psalm accidentally as I was doing the Psalm last week, Psalm 41, as we talked about a dry place.

As I talked about California coming out of a drought, well, hopefully coming out of a drought,

but being in a four-year drought, it reminded me of the dryness spiritually that we can go through, which is what

this particular psalm addresses. And this is not a psalm of David. This is apparently a masquel of

the sons of Korah, a fairly well-known psalm, and it starts like this. As a deer pants for

streams of water. So my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for you

for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? My tears have been my food day and night,

while people say to me all day long, where is your God? These things I remember as I pour out my soul, how I used to go to the

house of God, under the protection of the mighty one, with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng.

The writer of this psalm finds himself in a dry time. I'm seeing this psalm a little differently this week just because I'm

currently going through the book of the screw tape letters again, the book by C.S. Lewis.

And if you're not familiar with that book, it's a classic book in Christian writing. And it is

a fictional book because it is C.S. Lewis trying to put himself in the mind of

some of the minions of the evil one, and it is an elder demon screw tape writing to a lower demon,

his nephew, Wormwood, and giving him instructions about how to corrupt a new believer.

And one of the things that he writes about is that

to try and make sure that he doesn't understand that our lives as humans, our lives as people,

go through cycles, that there are times that are high times and there are times that are lows.

And to make him think that when he goes through a time in his faith that is a dry time,

when he goes through a time that is not a mountain top experience,

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