"WHO WILL STAND UP FOR ME AGAINST THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY?" Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence. In the Lord deliverance is assured. Therefore never give up. Our circumstances are often trying, and our thoughts very perplexing and depressing; but our God has provided comfort for us, a fulness of comfort, abundance of comfort for all times. What comfort is wrapped up in the precious promises, in the perfect work of Jesus, in the everlasting covenant, in the prospect of a complete and everlasting deliverance from all sin, suffering, and sorrow. We have everything in ourselves calculated to make us uncomfortable, but in our God we have everything that can make us happy. Our own thoughts are often a source of grief, but the thoughts of our God are full of love, peace, and joy. O what a comfort it is to us to have a Friend that loveth at all times, a Brother born for adversity! An Advocate with the Father, ever making intercession for us! To know that we are in union with Jesus, that the union is so close that He knows every thought, sympathises with us in every pain, and will bring us where He is, in exact likeness to Himself. He is our Head, we are His body. Precious truth this, that Christ and His church are one! How full of holy comfort! What an antidote it is against despondency and despair!

For Meditation:
When mournful thoughts within me rise,
And press upon my troubled breast,
The comforts of Thy word suffice,
To keep my heart and mind at rest.