Mon., 9/16/19 Devotion (Ps. 64:6b)

Today's encouragement comes from Psalm 64:6b, where David wrote this:

"Both the inward thought and the heart of man are deep."

What are our deepest, darkest thoughts and secrets—those things that only God (and we) know about? If we are in Christ by faith, we need not in anyway be undone by them, and/or discouraged by them. It is our faith in Jesus, and not our fears and foibles, that governs our our Spirit-led behavior, and estab-lishes our self-knowledge (as new creatures in Christ).

The devil seeks to turn our deep, dark thoughts into paralyzing spiritual straightjackets. God encourages us with words like these, "Your faith is your victory," (cf. 1 Jn. 5:4).

[Puritan quote of the day: "Do not mistake . . . things for evidences of the cer-tain wrath of God which, perhaps, are not really so.” —Timothy Rogers, in "The Trouble of Mind and the Disease of Melancholy"]