The Lord Is

"The Lord is my strength and song, and is become my salvation."  Psalm 118:14.  The times are indeed troubling.  Each person goes through their own trials and tribulations.  We all experience our own sadness and sorrow.  And, there are those times that we seek for answers.  We feel lost and afraid.  It is in these troubling times that we need God.   Science does not answer the deep longings of the soul.  Neither does education nor philosophy.  Man has been made in the likeness of God, and therefore, has a need for God.  The writer of this great passage confesses his dependence upon God.  In weakness, we need strength.  In loneliness, we need a song.   In fear, we need salvation.  God provides all of these:  strength, song, and salvation.  God enables.  God cheers.  God saves.  Life discovers power, happiness, and deliverance in the God of heaven.  Each one must come to find in God his own strength, song, and salvation.  A relationship with God is a single relationship that is built by faith and trust.  God can do for us what we need in all the different situations of our life.  With full confidence, we can say, "The Lord is my strength, my song, and my salvation."