July 6, 2019

JULY 6
 
        Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed (Ps. 37:3).
 
    What a beautiful promise regarding the "faith which worketh by love" (Gal. 5:6)!  One thing is certain, we neither trust the Lord without doing, nor do we do without trusting.  It is not ours to worry and do evil, but to trust and do good.  We must have faith, and real faith works.  "Faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone" (James 2:17).  Works, holy works, are the fruit of faith; and "by their fruits ye shall know them" (Matt. 7:20).  It is ours to trust and to do according to our trust.
 
    A child once made a slip as she began to quote the twenty-third psalm.  She said, "The Lord is my shepherd; that's all I want."  Really, that is all we want, for with Him we have everything.  Then the adversaries will not be able to root us out of Emmanuel's land, the providence of God, "the Canaan of His covenant love," as Spurgeon puts it.
 
    But more than that, someday the whole earth will be given to God's people.  "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth" (Matt. 5:5).  The Lord puts a "verily" in our promise text for today.  In the Land of Promise, here and hereafter, His children shall be fed.  They may not be fed by ravens or by an angel, by an Obadiah or by a widow, but "verily" they shall be fed.
 
                                When we walk with the Lord
                                In the light of His word,
                                What a glory He sheds on our way!
                                While we do His good will,
                                He abides with us still,
                                And with all who will trust and obey.
                                                                ___Rev. J. H. Sammis
 
 
MEDITATION PRAYER:  "In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness" (Ps. 31:1).