The Lord is righteous in all his ways
and loving toward all he has made. The Lord
is near to all who call on him, to all
who call on him in truth. He fulfills
the desires of those who fear him;
he hears their cry and saves them.
The Lord watches over all who love him,
but all the wicked he will destroy.
Psalm 145:17-20
Do not fret because of evil men or be envious
of those who do wrong;
for like the grass they will soon wither,
like green plants they will soon die away.
Trust in the Lord and do good;
dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will
give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 37:1-4
God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though
the earth give way and the mountains
fall into the heart of the sea, though
its waters roar and foam and the
mountains quake with their surging.
Psalm 46:1-3
How awesome is the Lord Most High,
the great King over all the earth!
He subdued nations under us,
peoples under our feet.
Psalm 47: 2,3
Your path led through the sea, your way through the mighty waters, though your footprints were not seen.
Psalm 77:19
And the sea appears to be the most trackless of worlds! The sea is the very symbol of mystery, the grim dwelling-house of the innumerable things that have been lost. But God’s way moves here and there across this trackless wild. God is never lost among our mysteries. He knows His way about. When we are bewildered He sees the road, and He sees the end even from the beginning. Even the sea, in every part of it, is the Lord’s highway. When His way is in the sea we cannot trace it. Mystery is part of our appointed discipline.
J.H. Jowett (from Daily Meditation. 1914)
Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge uprightly among men?
No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence
on the earth. Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they
are wayward and speak lies.
Their venom is like the venom of a snake,
like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears, that will not heed
the tune of the charmer, however skillful the enchanter may be.
Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; tear out, O Lord, the fangs
of the lions!
Let them vanish like water that flows away…
Then men will say, “Surely the righteous still are
rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth.”
Psalm 58:1-7; 11
Sarah MoonThere is a guide that never falters,
And when He leads I cannot stray,
For step by step He goes before me,
And marks my path, He knows the way.
Joel RobisonHe knows the evils that surround me,
The turnings that would lead astray,
No foes of night can ere confound me,
For Jesus leads, He knows the way.
A.B. Ackley
Streams in the Desert Volume 2 by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman February 7th
My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise renews my life.
Psalm 119: 50
“Thy word hath quickened me.”
It is a reviving comfort which quickeneth the soul.
Many times we seem to be dead to all spiritual operations,
our affections are damped and discouraged; but the word of
God puts life into the dead, and relieveth us in our greatest distresses.
Sorrow worketh death, but joy is the life of the
soul. Now, when dead in all sense and feeling, ” the just shall
live by faith” (Hab.ii:4), and the hope wrought in us by the
Scriptures is “a lively hope” (1Peter.i:3). Other things skin
the wound, but our sore breaketh out again, and runneth;
faith penetrateth into the inwards of a man,
doth good for the heart; and the soul reviveth
by waiting upon God, and gets life and strength.
-Thomas Manton (1620-1677)
The Treasury of David Classic Reflections of the Wisdom of the Psalms
by Charles H. Spurgeon p.245
