Gospel Report of Encouragement
"...the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: He is their strength in the time of trouble." -Psalm 37:39 Times of trouble try the saint of God, and they are meant to do so; that is the very purpose why they are sent, for "the LORD trieth the righteous" (Psalm 11:5). Still the promise holds good: "He is their strength in the time of trouble." When He breaks up the fountains of the great deep of sin and iniquity, He strengthens His people that they may not be carried away by the flood. When He hides His face, He strengthens them to say, "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him" (Job 13:15). When temptation besets them sore, when they are put into the furnace, the Lord is with them there , as He was with the three men whom Nebuchadnezzar cast in. The Son of God is there with them, so that not a hair of their head is singed, nor does the smell of fire pass upon them (Daniel 3:27). In all their afflictions He is afflicted, and by