“Why are you downcast, O my soul?” (Psalm 43:5)

“COME AND LISTEN, ALL YOU WHO FEAR GOD; LET ME TELL YOU WHAT HE HAS DONE FOR ME. I CRIED OUT TO HIM WITH MY MOUTH; HIS PRAISE WAS ON MY TONGUE.  IF I HAD CHERISHED SIN IN MY HEART, THE LORD WOULD NOT HAVE LISTENED; BUT GOD HAS SURELY LISTENED AND HEARD MY VOICE IN PRAYER.  PRAISE BE TO GOD, WHO HAS NOT REJECTED MY PRAYER OR WITHHELD HIS LOVE FROM ME! (Psalm 66:16-20)

If we have been converted but continue to live in sin, we are downcast as a consequence. (1)

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(1) Streams in the Desert, L.B. Cowman)