Psalm 119:50 CSB "This is my comfort in my affliction: Your promise has given me life."
The Covid pandemic has made using the drive-thru common practice. How often is the line wrapped around the building. We finally get to the pickup window only to hear, "Pull up; your order will be right out"? Then we sit, as the people behind us get their orders. Those who ordered after us drive-by look at us like we are in the way. It is as if they say, "What did you order; we got ours?" The drive-thru is a lot like Christianity.
We trust God, read the Bible, pray, sing about who God is and what he has done. Then we sit as the wicked drive-by. The Psalmist reminds us this morning not to be mad because the wicked get their order first. We should be mad because they do not obey the Bible and wait for God to deliver on his promises. One thing the pandemic has taught us is that the ends do not justify the means. Trouble and affliction will come. When we pray for help, we should comfort ourselves with God's promises, found only in the Bible, until our blessings of comfort arrive.
As the psalmist waits, he says:
"Remember the word to Your servant, In which You have made me hope.
This is my comfort in my affliction, That Your word has revived me.
The arrogant utterly deride me, Yet I do not turn aside from Your law.
I have remembered Your ordinances from of old, O Lord, And comfort myself.
Burning indignation has seized me because of the wicked, Who forsake Your law" (Psalm 119:49–53 NASB95).
This morning as you sit in line, sing, "here comes my biscuit, I am getting my hashbrowns, o what a great day it is when I finally get my breakfast."
Lord Jesus, today when I wait for your help, I will practice keeping your word. When the world mocks me, I will sing Bible verses: "Your statutes are my songs In the house of my pilgrimage" (119:54). When the wicked seem to get their way, I will not be mad at them but be angry because they have not kept Your Word (119:53). I will remember Your ordinances and comfort myself (119:52). As I wait, I know the comfort of obediently waiting on God's promises delivers greater blessings than forsaking biblical instruction.
Lord Jesus, remember Your words to me; the Bible delivers the meal of hope and comfort I have ordered. Today, when You delay, when I am mocked for trusting and obeying Your laws, and it seems like the world's way is the fastest path to what I want, I will pause and practice observing Your word. I will sing:
God has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.' Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.
Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong . . . This is my comfort in my affliction: Your promise has given me life" (2 Corinthians 12:9–10; Psalm 119:50). Lord, I will not grow impatient waiting on Your promises, for I know obeying the BIble brings all the blessings You have promised to me. While I wait for deliverance, Your word will be my comfort and hope: "For as many as are the promises of God, in [You, Christ Jesus] they are yes; therefore also through [our Jesus] is our Amen to the glory of God through us. In Jesus' name, amen.
Daily Devotion
"Pull up; your order will be right out!"
Verse of the Day, September 26, 2021
Psalm 119:50 CSB "This is my comfort in my affliction: Your promise has given me life."
The Covid pandemic has made using the drive-thru common practice. How often is the line wrapped around the building. We finally get to the pickup window only to hear, "Pull up; your order will be right out"? Then we sit, as the people behind us get their orders. Those who ordered after us drive-by look at us like we are in the way. It is as if they say, "What did you order; we got ours?" The drive-thru is a lot like Christianity.
We trust God, read the Bible, pray, sing about who God is and what he has done. Then we sit as the wicked drive-by. The Psalmist reminds us this morning not to be mad because the wicked get their order first. We should be mad because they do not obey the Bible and wait for God to deliver on his promises. One thing the pandemic has taught us is that the ends do not justify the means. Trouble and affliction will come. When we pray for help, we should comfort ourselves with God's promises, found only in the Bible, until our blessings of comfort arrive.
As the psalmist waits, he says:
"Remember the word to Your servant, In which You have made me hope.
This is my comfort in my affliction, That Your word has revived me.
The arrogant utterly deride me, Yet I do not turn aside from Your law.
I have remembered Your ordinances from of old, O Lord, And comfort myself.
Burning indignation has seized me because of the wicked, Who forsake Your law" (Psalm 119:49–53 NASB95).
This morning as you sit in line, sing, "here comes my biscuit, I am getting my hashbrowns, o what a great day it is when I finally get my breakfast."
Lord Jesus, today when I wait for your help, I will practice keeping your word. When the world mocks me, I will sing Bible verses: "Your statutes are my songs In the house of my pilgrimage" (119:54). When the wicked seem to get their way, I will not be mad at them but be angry because they have not kept Your Word (119:53). I will remember Your ordinances and comfort myself (119:52). As I wait, I know the comfort of obediently waiting on God's promises delivers greater blessings than forsaking biblical instruction.
Lord Jesus, remember Your words to me; the Bible delivers the meal of hope and comfort I have ordered. Today, when You delay, when I am mocked for trusting and obeying Your laws, and it seems like the world's way is the fastest path to what I want, I will pause and practice observing Your word. I will sing:
God has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.' Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.
Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong . . . This is my comfort in my affliction: Your promise has given me life" (2 Corinthians 12:9–10; Psalm 119:50). Lord, I will not grow impatient waiting on Your promises, for I know obeying the BIble brings all the blessings You have promised to me. While I wait for deliverance, Your word will be my comfort and hope: "For as many as are the promises of God, in [You, Christ Jesus] they are yes; therefore also through [our Jesus] is our Amen to the glory of God through us. In Jesus' name, amen.