Today's encouragement comes from Psalm 140:7, where we read these words:
"O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You have covered my head in the day of battle.”To have one’s “head covered in the day of battle” by God, is to be assured of victory and safety. The most secure place in the world is to be under the hand of the true and Triune God. Even in the “thick” of the warfare against all Christ’s foes, the church’s true saints are more comfortably reposed than the most pampered of sinners.
Regenerate churchmen love God in Jesus Christ; and, because of this, they are willing to both engage and thoroughly defeat all of His (and our) enemies. But we would have no possibility of success unless the sovereign God was with us, and provided us all the strength we need in Jesus.
[Puritan quote of the day: " 'You have heard of the patience of Job,' says James (Jas. 5:11). We have heard of his impatience too, but it pleased God mercifully to overlook that.” —Richard Sibbes, in "The Bruised Reed"]
