Today's encouragement comes from Genesis 31:16b, where we read these words:
" . . . whatever God has said to you, do it.”These words (above) of Jacob's wives, to him, are pretty good. How encour-aging is it, when other believers urge us on in our holy faith, and the gracious requirements it calls us to heed? This is especially true, when what we are told to do, by God, is not easy, and it grates against our natural tendencies.
Let all the faithful church be found saying to one another: "Whatever God has said to you, do it." And what is it that God would have us always do? To be united to Jesus, by grace through faith. When this is the case, we can do any-thing the Lord calls upon us to do. When this is not happening, we can do no-thing of any eternal value whatsoever.
[Puritan quote of the day: "What is it to enjoy good health, a hearty estate, and not to enjoy God?” —Thomas Watson, in, "A Body of Divinity"]
