Look for the Bright Side - Psalm 42:5

• There are two sides to the events which occur, and which seem so discouraging to us - a dark side and a bright side. 
• We are prone to look only at the dark side, to see only what is gloomy and discouraging.
• Looking only at the dark side, often becomes in a sense voluntary, and we find a melancholy satisfaction in being miserable, and in making ourselves more unhappy, as if we had been wronged, and as if there were a kind of virtue in dejection and gloom. It can be because we are mad at God, or we don't want to accept what has happened.
• God's beloved children need  to look at the bright side of things; to think of the past mercies of God; to look at the blessings which surround us still; to look to the future. in this world and the next, with hope. 
• God wants us to come to him, and cast the burden on him. 
• Every sad and grieving Christian ought to say to his soul, "Why am I in despair?"

Adapted from Barnes' Notes on the Bible