Today's encouragement comes from Psalm 31:14 & 15a, where we read these words:
"But as for me, I trust in You, O LORD; I say, 'You are my God.' My times are in Your hand . . . "This perspective of David (above) is very liberating. Instead of wringing his hands in worry, uncertainty, and concern over whatever the future holds—Da-vid, representing every Christ-loving churchman, leaves everything in God's more-than-capable hands. This is done via saving faith in Christ. Where *oth-ers* are certain to wrap themselves around the axle of the anxieties of the world, and will try to draw us into their fear and faithlessness—the true saint of the redeemed church resists this (natural and easy) tendency.
What is *our* outlook today: one of dark and dismal gloom; or one of hopeful grace (in Jesus)? Our Sunday celebrations of Christ’s triumph over death commemorates the fact that our Redeemer lives; and that we have (in Him alone) cause for both hope and rejoicing.
[Puritan quote of the day: "All the church's pangs help forward her deliver-ance.” —Thomas Watson, in, "A Body of Divinity"]
