Your Comforts Delight My Soul...

Unless the LORD had been my help,

My soul would soon have settled in silence.

18 If I say, "My foot slips,"

Your mercy, O LORD, will hold me up.

19 In the multitude of my anxieties within me,

Your comforts delight my soul.—Ps 94:17-19

The psalmist words in these verses resonate in my own heart.  Crying out to the Lord is what I do...He is my “Go-to” from before my feet hit the floor in the morning until sleep at night.  He is who I commune with during the day, moment by moment.  His unseen hand of mercy upholds me.   He is my help, my strength and my song.  It is so comforting to KNOW that the Lord is on MY side.  It is similarly consoling for me to KNOW that He is the same today as He was yesterday and He will be the same tomorrow as He was today.  My God IS the God who stays and who is my stay.  In the multitude of my anxieties within, the Spirit’s soothing word and His hand of grace bring me delight and peace in the midst of trouble.  John 16:32 says this: (Jesus is speaking)

Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

What grace I have been given.  Every trial I face drives me closer to His heart where I find my rest.  Spurgeon says this:

“Never is the soul safer or more at rest than when, all other helpers failing, she leans upon the Lord alone.”  So by His grace I cry out as David did in Psalm 142.  

1 I cry out to the LORD with my voice;

With my voice to the LORD I make my supplication.

2 I pour out my complaint before Him;

I declare before Him my trouble.

3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me,

Then You knew my path.

In the way in which I walk

They have secretly set a snare for me.

4 Look on my right hand and see,

For there is no one who acknowledges me;

Refuge has failed me;

No one cares for my soul.

5 I cried out to You, O LORD:

I said, "You are my refuge,

My portion in the land of the living.

6 Attend to my cry,

For I am brought very low;

Deliver me from my persecutors,

For they are stronger than I.

7 Bring my soul out of prison,

That I may praise Your name;

The righteous shall surround me,

For You shall deal bountifully with me."