The Happiness Formula (1)

If Your Law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my misery.  Psalm 119:92  NASB Misery – Carefully consider this statement.  Could you say the same thing?  Is the law of God so wonderful, so amazing, so encouraging to you—so shaashuim, delightful—that without it you would be destroyed in affliction?  Can I be…

The Thorn in the Flesh

You who have shown me many troubles and distresses will revive me again, and will bring me up again from the depths of the earth.  Psalm 71:20  NASB Revive – Don’t jump too quickly to those comforting thoughts about revival.  Pay attention to the beginning of this verse.  Who is the one who showed the poet’s many troubles…