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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 believe that. Even when doubts claw at my heart.

Our God hath not forsaken us. —Ezra 9:9.

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you. —If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

The Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

The Lord will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people. —Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. —Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God.

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.

I Pet. 4:12. -Heb. 12:7,8. Deut. 13:3. I Sam. 12:22. -Isa. 49:15. -Psa. 146:5. Luke 18:7,8.

I wait on Him.

But what all is that supposed to include? I don’t know. I just don’t know.

Well, the above selection of verses comes from this morning’s portion of Daily Light on the Daily Path.

And here’s something I made special just this morning (after almost eleven months of not doing these):

[The Scriptures say in Deuteronomy 13:3 -- The Lord your God proveth you]
from Deuteronomy 13:3