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October 7, 2012
It is often in the worst of circumstances when the Christian must affirm the unwavering faithfulness of God. Alistair Begg encourages us that when hard times come, we can bring to mind the faithfulness of God displayed perfectly in Christ Jesus and have hope. By looking to Christ, who is acquainted with our sorrows, Christians can couple their mournining with trust in God’s promises.
1kI am the man who has seen affliction
under the lrod of his wrath;
2he has driven and brought me
minto darkness without any light;
3surely against me he turns his hand
again and again the whole day long.
4He has made my flesh and my skin waste away;
nhe has broken my bones;
5ohe has besieged and enveloped me
with pbitterness and tribulation;
6qhe has made me dwell in darkness
like the dead of long ago.
7rHe has walled me about so that sI cannot escape;
he has made my chains heavy;
8though tI call and cry for help,
he shuts out my prayer;
9rhe has blocked my ways with blocks of stones;
he has made my paths crooked.
10uHe is a bear lying in wait for me,
a lion in hiding;
11vhe turned aside my steps and utore me to pieces;
whe has made me desolate;
12xhe bent his bow yand set me
as a target for his arrow.
13He drove into my kidneys
zthe arrows of his quiver;
14aI have become the laughingstock of all peoples,
bthe object of their taunts all day long.
15cHe has filled me with bitterness;
he has sated me with dwormwood.
16eHe has made my teeth grind on gravel,
and fmade me cower in ashes;
17my soul is bereft of peace;
I have forgotten what happiness1 is;
18gso I say, “My endurance has perished;
so has my hope from the Lord.”
19hRemember my affliction and my wanderings,
20My soul continually remembers it
jand is bowed down within me.
21But this I call to mind,
and ktherefore I have hope:
22lThe steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;2
lhis mercies never come to an end;
23they are new mevery morning;
ngreat is your faithfulness.
24o“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
k“therefore I will hope in him.”
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