Satisfied in You

I've been listening to the new Sojourn album, Come Ye Sinners, which has some fantastic songs. One song that has been comforting and encouraging me is the song 'Satisfied in You'. The song is based on Psalm 42 and is a song I am loving to sing as a worshipping sufferer. Check out the album and ponder these lyrics (the periods are inserted after every rhythmic line, not after every sentence)...

I have lost my appetite. And a flood is welling up behind my eyes. So I eat the tears I cry. And if that were not enough. They know just the words to cut and tear and prod. When they ask me “Whereʼs your God?”

Why are you downcast, oh my soul? Why so disturbed within me? I can remember when you showed your face to me. As a deer pants for water, so my soul longs for you. And when I survey Your splendor, You so faithfully renew. Like a bed of rest for my fainting flesh. I am satisfied in you.

When Iʼm looking at the ground. Itʼs an inbred feedback loop that drags me down. So itʼs time to lift my brow. And remember better days. When I loved to worship you and learn your ways. Singing sweetest songs of praise.

Why are you downcast, oh my soul? Why so disturbed within me? I can remember when you showed your face to me. As a deer pants for water, so my soul longs for you. And when I survey Your splendor, You so faithfully renew. Like a bed of rest for my fainting flesh. I am satisfied in you.

Let my sighs give way to songs that sing about your faithfulness. Let my pain reveal your glory as my only real rest. Let my losses show me all I truly have is you. Yes all I truly have is you.

So when Iʼm drowning out at sea. And all your breakers and your waves crash down on me. Iʼll recall your safety scheme. Youʼre the one who made the waves. And your Son went out to suffer in my place. Just to show me that Iʼm safe. Why are you downcast oh my soul? Why so disturbed within me? I am satisfied in you.