Today's encouragement comes from Psalm 92:13 & 14, where we read these great words:
"Those who are planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bear fruit in old age; they shall be fresh and flour-ishing . . . "Where are we "planted” on the earth today? Are we *mostly* invested in our business, academic, or civic concerns; and/or our family and home responsi-bilities? If so, then we will be eventually be uprooted by the storms of life on a fallen planet. Only those who are firmly ingrafted into Christ and His church (“house of the Lord” above) are able to withstand the forces set against us. On top of this, we are also able to remain "fruitful" all the way to our last breath.
Let us love Who and what God Himself loves: Christ and His church. As we do this, we are invincible. Nothing that the world, the flesh, or the devil shoots at us can bring us down.
[Puritan quote of the day: "No matter what storms I meet with, I know where to put in for harbor. He who has God to be his God is so well contented with his condition that he does not much care whether he has anything else.”
—Thomas Watson, in, "The Art of Divine Contentment"]
