Our Scripture reading today is Psalm 31:24, "Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart,
all ye that hope in the LORD."
Life is filled with choices. Every day we are faced with choices or decisions. God
has placed within us a free will to decide as we please. The verse for today
admonishes us to make a choice. Will we choose to be of courage or not? No one else
can make the choice for us. “Dear friends, if you want to get out of diffidence, and timidity, and
despondency, you must rouse yourselves up. This is incumbent upon you, for the text puts it so:
‘Be of good courage.’ Do not sit still, and rub your eyes, and say, ‘I cannot help it, I must always be
dull like this.’ You must not be so; in the name of God, you are commanded in the text to ‘be of good
courage.’ If you are indolent, like that, you must not expect the grace of God to operate upon you as though
you were a block of wood, and could be made into something against your will. Oh, no! You must
determine to be of good courage.” (Spurgeon)
I am sure everyone reading this needs the strength of the LORD. Trust in His plan for
your life and be of good courage! Trust that God's way even in difficulty is best and
be of good courage.