Put your hope in God

Today I am thankful that God's love and concern for me does not depend on how I feel or on circumstances. Even though I feel tired and discouraged, I know that I am a daughter of the King of Heaven. I can say with the Psalmist in Psalm 42 and 43:

Why are you downcast, O my
           soul?
  Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
  for I will yet praise him,
  my Savior and my God.

The above passage is repeated three times in the two chapters, and at one point, the writer says:

My soul is downcast within me;
  therefore I will remember you . . .

Today, I will remember all God has done for me, and I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.