Be Strong and Take Heart

April 17

Life can be overwhelming. Plans fail. Relationships disappoint. Hope shatters. Dreams are left unrealized. Even those who appear to have ‘made it,’ often dwell in misery within their finely appointed homes. None of the luxuries with which they lavish themselves can assuage the pain of life’s disappointments.

Is there any way to get around life’s let-downs? If they must come—and it appears they come to everyone—is there any way to navigate beyond them? Must the awareness of them impact every future endeavor, cloud every future yearning? Actually, the Word of God has a remedy for the weary ones who are burdened with life’s trials.

God’s solutions are simple and free. There is no ‘self-help’ plan to buy, no guru who professes answers to all life’s problems to consult. The Lord's answer is timeless—it worked for the people who walked the dusty roads of Palestine in Jesus’ day and it works for us today. The Word of God is ‘yea and amen.’ It is steadfast and it is effectual.

Everyone who puts his trust in the Living God may appropriate the unchanging answer to life’s perplexing problems. It is found in Psalm 31:24 where it says, “Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord.” If your hope is in Him, He will be the source of your strength; He will be your victory that overcomes all life’s challenges.