" . . . And then the king [of Israel] said, 'Surely this calamity is from the LORD; why should I wait for the LORD any longer?' "
Many people fail in their religion because of impatience. Here, the king of Israel is right: God sent the trouble with which they were dealing. But he was wrong, in thinking that it was futile to "wait for the LORD any longer." Little did he know that in the very next chapter God would bring about a great and miraculous deliverance.
If we are almost at the end of our ropes today, and we are tempted to give up on God--let us be sure not to do this. The Lord is always faith-
ful to His church; and all alternatives to Christ only lead to much worse disasters (in this world, and in the one to come).
[Puritan quote of the day: "Oh, do not let the devil be your master, nor the world your god. Do not let sin cheat and impose upon you with its false and counterfeit delights." --Timothy Rogers, in, "Trouble of Mind and the Disease of Melancholy"]
