Today's encouragement comes from Psalm 71:14, which says this:
"But I will hope continually, and will praise You yet more and more."The psalmist here, likely David, had just been enunciating to God in prayer the trials and woes he had been experiencing, at the hands of wicked men. But his response to this trouble is not retreat or despair—instead he "ratches-up" his hope and praise. This is a good model of how we are to handle our difficulties. Does Satan throw some garbage our way? Let us redouble our commitment to Christ.
Instead of collapsing under our burdens, we may grow stronger from bearing them; and then, leave them at Jesus' feet.
[Puritan quote of the day: "And so to come into God's presence is the great-est joy for a godly man in this life, to come into God's presence in His ordin-ances [preaching/sacraments/prayer] in His Church.” —Christopher Love, in, "The Dejected Soul's Cure"]
