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Thursday... Yes, it is true, He really does.


Psalm 94:18-19 (AMP), "If I say, 'My foot has slipped,' Your compassion and lovingkindness, O Lord, will hold me up. When anxious thoughts multiply within me, Your comfort delights me."

Thursday... Yes, it is true, He really does.

There are good things about being old and experienced. Psalm 94:18-19 (AMP) says, "If I say, 'My foot has slipped,' Your compassion and lovingkindness, O Lord, will hold me up. When anxious thoughts multiply within me, Your comfort delights me." I am old and I have found this to be true, over and over.


Yes, it is true, He really does. When my foot has slipped, God's compassion and lovingkindness, has held me up. When my anxious thoughts wake me up in the middle of the night He really does comfort me.

I've had one of those nights this week and it is true, He really did comfort me. It is so amazing how God works things out and He uses those times in us.

Look at these verses, 12-13 says, "Blessed [with wisdom and prosperity] is the man whom you discipline and instruct, O Lord, and whom You teach from Your law, that You may grant him [power to calm himself and find] peace in the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked and ungodly. For the Lord will not abandon His people, nor will He abandon His inheritance."

Yes, God gives us power to calm ourselves and find peace in the days of adversity.

I'm also reading the book of James in the NT and in 1:2-4 (NLT) the brother of Jesus writes, "Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind comes your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy." Now for many young people that doesn't make sense. But those of us who are old and have had a relationship with God for many years. we know it is true.

He goes on, "For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing." And you can know that to be true even when you are young.

Verse 4 in the New International Version says, "Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." I know a lot of older people who are not mature and complete.

Verses 2-4 in The Message says, "Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way."

"If I say, 'My foot has slipped,' Your compassion and lovingkindness, O Lord, will hold me up. When anxious thoughts multiply within me, Your comfort delights me." Yes, it is true, He really does. and He really does know what He is doing in us. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning


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