The effectiveness of God's Word isn't intended to lead God's people into carelessness, but into perseverance.
"We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul..."
Psalm 28 shows us how God brings us from worry to worship by teaching us to trust in his work, even when he sometimes seems silent.
Will you curse God and sink? Or will you trust God and swim?
We ought to remember to pray for the men on the job, the moments of opportunity God gives us, and for the message of Christ to be proclaimed clearly.
Feeling downcast? Pray, sing, preach the gospel to yourself, and be convinced of God's love and sovereign power.
Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength.
Isaiah insists that we can’t put our trust in the glory of man, at all. Because it’s a mirage in the desert. It’s a water droplet of dew that’s evaporating under the morning sunlight. It doesn’t ultimately last.
And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.
It’s not as though the idea of love existed eternally, and then God came across it at some point and learned to love. No, love has its definition and existence in God. Love exists, because God exists.