Love the LORD, all you His saints! The LORD preserves the faithful but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride. Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD!PSALM 31:2...  Read More

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.PSALM 31:18+Deadly WordsDeceitful lips become dumb . . . when they are removed by death and borne away in...  Read More

My times are in Your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!PSALM 31:15+The Whole World in His HandsThe Holy Spirit reminds us . . . that we should learn the doctrine of c...  Read More

Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also.PSALM 31:9+A Prayer of a Penitent Heart[This is] a beautiful prayer of a conscience that is fearf...  Read More

To you, O LORD, I cry, and to the Lord I plead for mercy: "What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the pit? . . . Hear, O LORD, and be merciful to me!"PSALM 30:8-10+From the AbyssFaith strug...  Read More

By Your favor, O LORD, You made my mountain stand strong; You hid Your face; I was dismayed.PSALM 30:7+God's Training MethodThis is the usual way of training saintly and godly men. . .. Why or how doe...  Read More

Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.PSALM 30:5+Founded on the RockThis means that that disaster will be of short duration. One bad night before the morning breaks. . .. But...  Read More

His anger is but for a moment, and His favor is for a lifetime.PSALM 30:5+The Art of JoyIt is, therefore, easy to say that the true fear of God is a filial fear, that is, a fear mixed with joy or hope...  Read More

His anger is but for a moment.PSALM 30:5+A Reason to Give ThanksLet us be warned . . . and learn this: the longer God puts up with idolatry and other sins, and the longer He pays no attention to them,...  Read More

The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness.PSALM 29:8+Thunder and LightningThat is how God's Word proceeds. It challenges the whole world. It reaches into the mouth of the lords and the princes and o...  Read More

The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon. He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.PSALM 29:5-6+To Become like CalvesWe must overcome...  Read More

The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the LORD, over many waters.PSALM 29:3+Just like WaterWaters is a designation for us, the people (Revelation 17:15: "the waters that...  Read More