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I headed for bed last night, feeling very overwhelmed. Bleak, really. Desperate and defeated, if you will.

(Yeah, feelings are terrible liars sometimes; other times, frightful barometers and/or thermometers.)

So I reached for God and the Scriptures. He lifted my spirit (again), this time with this:

There is a hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. —Job 14:7.

A bruised reed shall he not break. —He restoreth my soul.Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. —No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceful fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word. —After all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this.

Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. He will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

Isa. 42:3. -Psa. 23:3. II Cor. 7:10. -Heb. 12:11. Psa. 119:67. -Ezra 9:13. Mic. 7:8,9.

Source: Daily Light on the Daily Path | November 22, Evening

…I am cut off.

I just read this a few minutes ago…and — Wow! — can I connect with it:

It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. —Lam. 3:26.

Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? —I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

Shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. —Wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee. —Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the Lord.

Let us not be weary in well doing: . . . in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. —Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

Psa. 77:9. –Psa.31:22. Luke 18:7,8. -Prov. 20:22. -Psa. 37:7.II Chr. 20:17. Gal. 6:9. -Jas. 5:7.

But how am I supposed to “make this work”?

How do I implement it in “real life”?

How do you?

Source: Daily Light on the Daily Path | October 30, Morning