“Who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials.” 1 Peter 1v5&6 When I read this scripture this morning I thought of the

             ‘By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.” (Psalm 137v1&2) What a picture of isolation and longing as we read here how the people of God find themselves sitting beside the rivers of a strange

“For innumerable evils have surrounded me; My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head; therefore my heart fails me.” (Ps 40v12 NKJV) In living for Jesus sometimes we can be overwhelmed with our own sinfulness and failure. So much so

“I waited patiently for the LORD; And He inclined to me, and heard my cry.” (Ps 40v1 NKJV) I like the (CEB) version..”I put all my hope in the LORD, He leaned down to me; He listened to my cry for help.” What an encouragement it is to read how David the Psalmist in his