THE DAY OF TROUBLE
“For he will conceal me in his shelter on the day of trouble; he will hide me in the folds of his tent, he will set me on a rock.” (Psalm 27:5)
The day of trouble is no gentleman, and though it may be an unwelcome stranger, we can know in and through it the deep unfathomable riches of His love, because nothing is wasted in His eternal purposes. Therein lies the knowledge, the fiercest statement of faith and ultimate response in the darkest of times that carries us from moment to moment, strengthened by His all-surpassing greatness!
God’s promises are unswerving in the good, the bad and the ugly; in a crisis and in a God-moment, in restoration and transformation, in the darkness of soul and in the epiphany, in the shadows and in the fullness of glory. Truly He deserves every vestige of praise and worship, every fibre of thanksgiving as expressed in the totality of our lives lived unto Him!
Here in Psalm 27 we see something contained that transcends the beauty of words, an exquisite treasure manifested in the furnace of affliction.
Raphael ben Levi
