Tues., 5/6/14 Devotion (Ps. 50:15)

Today's encouragement comes from Psalm 50:15, where we read these words:

"Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me."

God brings trouble to His people, so that they will cry out to Him. The Lord loves it when we in His church exercise faith in His Son (see Heb. 11:6). Our faith is mostly demonstrated through our responses to difficulties. Faith takes practical expression in and through prayer.

Are we in any kind of trouble today? That is fine, so long as we have God to go to with those problems. Life is less about how to avoid hardship; and a lot more about how to take advantage of the opportunities it affords us (to know Christ better).

[Puritan quote of the day: "We should labor to give the best interpretation to the actions of governors that the nature of the actions will possibly bear."
--Richard Sibbes, in, "The Bruised Reed"]