Today's encouragement comes from Psalm 13:1a & 6, where we read these words:
"How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? . . . I will sing to the LORD, because He has dealt bountifully with me."How could David's perspective change so dramatically, in the span of only five verses? The reason: because, in v. 5, he re-affirms his faith in God. This supernatural blessing of God-given faith dispelled David's "sorrow," and his melancholy musings of heart.
All of us—even among the faithful churchmen—are prone to the sagging, drooping gravity of sadness and heaviness of soul. The answer to this syn-drome is our renewed and living faith in our Lord Jesus. Trusting in Christ raises us up—even against the wind and force of opposition—into the heav-enlies. Let us not give into hopelessness today. Instead, let us refresh our un-conquerable faith in Christ.
[Puritan quote of the day: "Despair is often the ground of hope.” —Richard Sibbes, in, "The Soul's Conflict with Itself"]
