Michael E. Wood
July 13, 2011
Psalm 119:50 This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life.
How oft do we think of afflictions as being those things which we suffer physically in the body or emotionally in our minds?
While having not the slightest intention of belittling those things, and am becoming all the more familiar with bodily afflictions as I grow older, the things that bother me most are those things I find remaining in me revealed by the Holy Spirit through the scriptures and the holiness of God Himself in the person of Christ.
The slowness and deception of my own heart and mind to grasp and to speak the realities of the One true God by the power of His Spirit unto His glory would be disheartening at times to the point of exasperation apart from His free grace. But God in His infinite wisdom gives peace through the blood of the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ and causes us to rejoice in every tribulation with hope and assurance that in all things He will be glorified. In steadfast love and faithfulness, He walks with us and He talks with us, reminding us that we are His to do with as He will. And He who has begun a good work in us will continue to do so till the day of Christ. He is our life; we are hidden in Him, and all for the purpose of His infinite glory. Amen!
Heaven We Foretaste
Afflictions of the heart
And afflictions of the mind
Are places all God’s children
Will in Him true comfort find.
For as we drink the cup
In earnest looking up
To Him Who Is our peace
And bids us to Him come and sup
Of resurrection power,
He is each passing hour
And gives the fruit of joy
Which comes from each new budding flower.
And in them we do taste
That nothing is a waste
He uses as in sweet communion
Heaven we foretaste
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