Monday, October 5, 2009

Mon., 10/5/09 Devotion (Ps. 89:16)

Today's encouragement comes from Psalm 89:16, where we read these words:

"In Your name they rejoice all day long, and in Your righteousness they are exalted."

How is it, that the sincere believers can rejoice in God "all day long"? Because he or she realizes that his or her life is hidden away in Christ, and that no matter what happens in that particular day God has a sovereign purpose for it.

Believing churchmen have a rock-solid foundation in their faith in Christ alone. Nothing (and no one) else is acceptable to God. But Christ is MORE than pleasing to Him.

[Puritan quote of the day: "For every believer, the debt-book is crossed out; the black lines of sin are crossed out with the red lines of Christ's blood." --Thomas Watson, in his sermon, "God's Anatomy upon Man's Heart"]