Today's encouragement comes from Psalm 36:8, where we read these words:
"They are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of Your house, and You give them drink from the river of Your pleasures.”Jesus Christ is an endless source of pleasure, delight, satisfaction, safety, and plenty. He (with the Father) gives His church the blessed Holy Spirit, Who is the indwelling Eternal Spring of life, joy, vitality, and hope. God’s “house,” His church, is a place of abundance and overflow.
. . . If all of this is true, (and it clearly is), then why do any of us continue to find ourselves in want (or need)? Because we forget the gospel of God’s free grace to us in Jesus. Trouble we will have in this world; want (need) is nev-er necessary.
[Puritan quote of the day: "Let us assure ourselves that God's grace, even in this imperfect state, is stronger than man's free will in the state of original per-fection.” —Richard Sibbes, in, "The Bruised Reed"]
