Daily Affirmations - Day 4 - The Promise of Dawn - Therefore I have Hope
Day 4: Therefore I have hope
Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness (Lamentations 3:21-23).
I cry aloud to God,
aloud to God, that He may hear me.
In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord;
in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying;
my soul refuses to be comforted.
I think of God, and I moan;
I meditate, and my spirit faints. Selah
You keep my eyelids from closing;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
I consider the days of old
and remember the years of long ago.
I commune with my heart in the night;
I meditate and search my spirit:
“Will the Lord spurn forever
and never again be favorable?
Has His steadfast love ceased forever?
Are His promises at an end for all time?
Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Has He in anger shut up His compassion?” Selah
And I say, “It is my grief
that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”
I will call to mind the deeds of the Lord;
I will remember your wonders of old.
I will meditate on all Your work
and muse on Your mighty deeds.
Your way, O God, is holy.
What god is so great as our God?
You are the God who works wonders;
You have displayed Your might among the peoples.
With Your strong arm You redeemed Your people,
the descendants of Jacob and Joseph. Selah
Psalm 77:1-15 (NRSVUE)
Days of trouble must be days of prayer; when God seems to have withdrawn from us, we must seek Him till we find Him. In the day of his trouble the psalmist did not seek for the diversion of business or amusement, but he sought God, and His favor and grace...
Here is the language of a sorrowful, deserted soul, walking in darkness; a common case even among those that fear the Lord (Isaiah 50:10). Nothing wounds and pierces like the thought of God's being angry.
God's own people, in a cloudy and dark day, may be tempted to make wrong conclusions about their spiritual state, and that of God's kingdom in the world. But we must not give way to such fears.
Let faith answer them from the Scripture. The troubled fountain will work itself clear again; and the recollection of former times of joyful experience often raises a hope, tending to relief.
~ Matthew Henry
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