God is Your Confidence
Some days everything seems to go wrong!
Every phone call brings bad news. The mails are demanding… The children come home from school with some kind of injury or a bad report. Work is frustrating. Health is disturbing. Friends are leaving… Foes are threatening… What do you do when you have one of these days?
Here’s a man who was fainting and failing. The psalmist! He was like a wineskin in the smoke. Wherever he walked there was a pit for him to drop into. What did he do? He turned to God!
His source of hope was His Word. “My soul faints for Your salvation…For I have become like a wineskin in smoke, yet I do not forget Your statutes…. The proud have dug pits for me, which is not according to Your law” (Psalm 119:81-83,85).
He told God!! “My eyes fail from searching Your word, saying, ‘When will You comfort me?”
People will fail you, but God never will. The psalmist clung to the comfort, hope and faithfulness of God, and as a result he experienced revival.
“Revive me according to Your lovingkindness” (v 88).
God came with a Breath of fresh, heavenly air –
– the Holy Spirit –
– and revived him.
He trusted in God!!!
“…but I hope in Your word”.
“All Your commandments are faithful” (v 86).
If you hope in circumstances, you will be disappointed, because they change. The psalmist hoped in the Word and trusted in God’s faithfulness, and God comforted him.
“Do not be afraid of sudden terror, Nor of trouble from the wicked when it comes; For the LORD will be your confidence…” (Proverbs 3:24-25).
Thank God for His faithfulness! If you are having a rough day, remember that you can depend on Him and Him alone!
God is your Confidence! And He will revive you, release you and reward you!