Created 3/12/2009
When times are tough; and there seems no way to turn, how are we to encourage ourselves? When no one knows the personal ordeal that we are going through how do we get the encouragement that we so desperately need? The answer is found in three little concepts: believe, wait, and good courage. In Psalms 27: 13-14 we read “I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait I say on the LORD.”
Did you catch it? David in this Psalm was saying I would have fainted had it been for the fact that (1) he chose to believe the goodness of the Lord here on earth (there was an expectation) (2) that he waited on the Lord (did not just go and do things on his own), and (3) be of good courage (David was not going to be down trodden). When David did these things he noticed that the Lord would “strengthen thine heart”.
Need encouragement? Try God’s plan: believe, wait, and be of good courage and see what happens.
