February 5

“Thou weary traveler, thou journeyer from earth’s sweet dust unto earth’s sweet dust, come lay thy weary head upon MY breast. Come unto ME and I will give you rest.” These words were penned decades ago by a young, unknown poet who even at a tender age realized that the sojourn of man upon this planet is prone to wear him down, but it is Jesus’ good purpose to endue him with strength.

The Word affirms the Lord as the source of all we need to navigate our way from the threshold of life to the threshold of eternal life. Psalm 28:7,8 says, “The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts confidently in Him and I am helped. Therefore, I greatly rejoice and praise Him with song. He is the stronghold of my salvation.”

Were life not fraught with toils and snares as John Newton declares in his beautiful hymn, “Amazing Grace,” we might be unaware of our profound need for all the Lord supplies, but reality sets in almost daily and we see clearly that we need His strength and His help to be imparted to us. The first step toward realizing that help is to “trust confidently in Him.”
His Word states that He doesn’t intend to share His glory with anyone. As long as we think it is our own strength and our own ingenuity that attain success and overcome problems, we will have only ourselves on whom to rely. But when we decide to trust Jesus and all He’s supplied, He becomes our Provider, our Healer, our Teacher, our Savior in Whom is all we need