Spiritual Strength For Each Day
“Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him” (Job 13:15).
Little words are often of great significance. They are of infinitely greater significance, however, where the Word of God is concerned. One of these words is “yet,” which expresses the unshakable faith of a person who is being tried and tested, yet who reckons with the Lord in all his trials. When everything goes wrong in your life, when everything collapses around you, and if you are getting older and weaker, then cling to Jesus so that you can say with the prophet Habakkuk, “Yet will I rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places” (Habakkuk 3:18-19).
How often have you experienced this, that you received help when everything threatened to overwhelm you on account of your sins? We forget all too soon that darkness and trouble are often the result of our own disobedience. And yet, in His grace the Lord forgave us and we experienced the words of Lamentations 3:31-32, “The Lord will not cast off for ever: but though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.”
