GRACE IN TIMES OF DISTRESS
Psalm 119:153-160
David has an eye for God’s enormous grace, and prays, “Consider my affliction; take it into thy thoughts, and all the circumstances of it, and sit not by as one unconcerned.’ God is never unmindful of his people’s afflictions, but he will have us to put him in remembrance.
The closer we cleave to the word of God, both as our rule and as our stay, the more assurance we have of deliverance. Christ is the Advocate of his people, their Redeemer. Those who were quickened by his Spirit and grace, when they were dead in trespasses and sins, often need to have the work of grace revived in them, according to the word of promise. God’s mercies are tender; they are a fountain that can never be exhausted.
The psalmist begs for God’s reviving, quickening grace. A man who is steady in the way of his duty, though he may have many enemies, needs to fear none. Those that hate sin truly, hate it as sin, as a transgression of the law of God, and a breaking of his word. Our obedience is only pleasing to God, and pleasant to ourselves, when it comes from a principle of love. All, in every age, who receive God’s word in faith and love, find every saying in it faithful.
PRAYER: I trust your word, I believe all you say, and I receive help and comfort in the difficult moments of my life
