Mon., 5/11/20 Devotion (Ps. 59:8)

Today's encouragement comes from Psalm 59:8, where we read these words:

"But You, O LORD, shall laugh at them; You shall have all the nations in deri-sion."

God's "belly-laughs" are not always brought on by some silly (or funny) things His creatures do (perhaps, even innocently). In the verse above, the Lord is chuckling over the foolishness and stupidity of His enemies, who actually think they can take on and overcome the Creator (who made them).

In reality, life is no "laughing matter"; and God calls on His whole world to worship Him in Jesus Christ (alone). The fact, however, is that only the faithful church actually practices this (proper worship). Those who love God will be vilified by those who hate Him. But the same Sovereign Lord who gets the “last laugh,” secures, protects, and blesses His true children.

[Puritan quote of the day: "What peace or comfort had Judas in the sight of his thirty pieces of silver?” —William Bridge, in, "A Lifting Up for the Down-cast"]