Today's encouragement comes from Acts 16:25, where we read these words:
"But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.”When God’s true children praise Him, even while they are enduring the most grievous afflictions, it greatly honors Him [the Lord]. Paul and Silas could have been bemoaning their situation, and grousing over the fact that they got beat up in Philippi, and thrown into prison—but, instead, they were praying and singing.
On top of all this, they were bold and confident. The ministers were happy to have the other prisoners hear their petitions to the one, true, and only God, through Jesus Christ; and they were so liberated in their souls that they in-toned the Lord’s praises in hymns of deliverance. May all the saints do the same.
[Puritan quote of the day: "Is your sin as big as God, as big as Christ?”
—William Bridge, in, "A Lifting Up For the Downcast"]
