Psalm 43:3-5 (NASB)
3 Send me your light and your faithful care, let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell. 4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God. 5 Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. The psalmist pleaded for God to deliver him from his enemies and to restore him to the very presence of God. It is the light of God which he asks to direct his steps and lead him to God's mountain. It is not the mountain, however, which the psalmist longs for, but God's presence which he might find there. God is his hope and his cause for praise even amidst his trials. The psalmist's plea echoes forth in the declaration of John that the Light has indeed come to guide humanity into the faithful and glorious presence of God.
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