Psalm 23 is a storehouse of truth for you and I to put to work in our lives today.
God's world and God's word both speak to us about the majesty of their author.
The gospel is the hope that we need in our complaint and our lament. No matter how dark things feel, we have a Saviour who walked out of His grave and who will split the skies some day soon and wipe every tear from our eyes. And so we can tell God how it feels, be honest with Him about how things seem, and bring our humble complaints to Him. But the gospel reminds us that we do know how it's all going to end.
The Psalms have such potential to orient us towards a realistic Christian life, shaping our expectations and reactions and helping us learn how to fight for hope and joy in the middle of our difficulty.
We can't stay on the mountaintop, but we can remember to carry the truths we learned there back into the plains and valleys below.
We must make our lives count for eternity because Jesus is worth it.
The end of the story isn’t really the end of the story. Everything from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22 is just a prologue, just setting the stage. When we burst out of our graves to a New Creation, that will be when the real story begins.
Not everyone should go to the unreached peoples of the world. But we won't be effective at staying unless we are willing to go.
Prayer, according to the Bible, is asking God to do what He has already promised to do. But if that's true, then why should we pray in the first place?
Spiritual warfare is not some extra thing that a few Christians might encounter every once and a while. The Christian life itself is spiritual war.
We should be thankful that God doesn’t say “yes” to every prayer for healing. He so often uses pain and suffering and sickness to work in our life, doing things He couldn’t do any other way.
The normal Christian life is a pervasively supernatural experience.