Faith

؛؛Psalm 57 teaches us how to exalt God in time of trouble. Sometimes we may feel like David – trapped in darkness and surrounded by enemies. But in spite of the trouble around us, we can still reach out to God in faith.

Faith

Faith is dead to doubts—
dumb to discouragements,
blind to impossibilities,
knows nothing but success.
Faith lifts its hand up through
the threatening clouds,
lays hold of Him who has
all power in heaven and on earth.
Faith makes the uplook good,
the outlook bright,
the inlook favorable,
and the future glorious

John Wesley wrote

Jesus, Lover of my soul
Let me to Thy bosom fly
While the nearer waters roll,
While the tempest still is high
Hide me, O my Saviour, hide
Till the storm of life is past.

Scroggie comments, "In content the Psalm moves, as in an ellipse, around two facts present to the Psalmist’s consciousness–the fact of foes, and the fact of God; but his fear of the one is more than counteracted by his faith in the Other."

In 1791, John Wesley lay on his deathbed at the age of 88. Those who gathered around him

realized how well he had learned the lesson of praising God in every circumstance. Despite Wesley's extreme weakness, he began singing this hymn,

"I'll praise my Maker while I've breath,
And when my voice is lost in death,
Praise shall employ my nobler power;
My days of praise shall ne'er be past,
While life, and thought, and being last,
Or immortality endures."

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