Today's encouragement comes from David's lips, as his words are recorded in 2 Samuel 15:26b:
" . . . Here I am, let Him [God] do to me as seems good to Him."David's attitude is a good one. He was being humbled by God, while his treacherous son Absalom schemed to take away his throne. One gets the sense that, though David knew he deserved rough treatment from God (be-cause of his murder and adultery, etc.)—he expected the Lord would be merciful and gracious to him, nonetheless.
. . . And indeed God's kindness is what David received, in the end. Can *we* say, "Here I am, let God do to me as seems good to Him"? If we are truly in Christ, we can; and we need not fear a thing.
[Edwards quote of the day: "All the riches of the world, or the honors and pleasure of it, all the learning, the power, and the policy of the world, all the worldly titles and distinctions cannot make the sinful creature happy or do him any good.” —Jonathan Edwards, in his sermon, "Christ is the Christian's All"]
