Daily Devotionals

Bowen's Daily Meditations

Devotional: January 12th

"Wait on the Lord: be of good courage." - Psalms 27:14.

Tell him your story; unfold to him your case; expect deliverance through him alone; -be satisfied to receive it as it shall please him to give it and in the time that seems best to him. By prayer and faith on your part and promise on his, there is an alliance signed, sealed, and ratified. Your enemies see you alone, and dream not that the Almighty is your ally, and that they are rushing upon the thick bosses of his shield. See him that is to them invisible, and be of good courage.

Wait on him with an explicit statement.

Wait on him in continuous prayer.

Wait on him in the study of his word.

Wait on him in trust; in penitence; and in obedience.

Wait on him in the society of his people.

And he of good courage. He only has properly anything to do with courage, who waits on the Lord. To be bold without the favor of God, to be brave where we have no warrant for intrepidity, to be fearless where there is nothing but our own prowess, wisdom or luck to aid us, is simply to play the fool. A man must either have Omnipotence with him or against him. What matters it if he is able to cut his way through an army, if he wait not on God? A tile from a roof may crush him. The wrath of God abideth on him. His deeds are done on the border of a precipice which he sees not. His foot shall slide in due time.

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