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Psalm 119:92-93    If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.  I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have preserved my life.

As I try to adjust my life to the new ‘normal’ without my wife at my side, many readers have lovingly suggested that I might need to take a break from Today’s Quick Word until things settle down.  And then I come across verses like verses 92-93 of Psalm 119!  I think these verses today made me realise in a new light something that perhaps I have too easily taken for granted in the past: It is God’s Written Word that continues to sustain me in hard times.

Thankfully, by God’s grace, readers comment from time to time that they have found TQW relevant and helpful to their particular current situation.  In the same way, in a general ongoing sense, I think that the overall discipline of having to read four chapters of Scripture each day, and then to find a particular verse(s) within them to write about, has enabled me to say to God, honestly, and with some feeiing, “If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction. I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have preserved my life.”

So, a very big, heartfelt ‘thank you’ to all of you for providing for me the reason to make this important discovery, and I want to let you know that I find the exercise helpful even if no one else does.  Let us all persevere in making every effort to give a high priority in our busy routines to the daily exercise of spending time in God’s Word (Psalm 1:2; 119:11; etc) as we realise the difference this makes to our overall well-being and spiritual health, even if we don’t always appreciate this at the time, when there are so many other ‘important’ and pressing things to do.

Satan understands this whole dynamic much more clearly than we do, and so makes it as hard as possible for us to find (or, rather, allocate) the time to reading, and meditating on, God’s Word!  Let us not give him a foothold!

– Bruce Christian