“Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.” Psalm 42:11 David went through many times of testing and one of the most discouraging was probably when his son Absalom tried to take over the kingdom from him. Forced to forsake his home and flee into the wilderness, he was homesick and weary. In the opening verses, he compares himself to the thirsty deer seeking a place to quench its thirst. With no royal…