I was going through a time when I was facing disappointment and sorrow and, really, it seemed that the waves and the billows of God were going over my own soul.

One thing I’ve always loved about the Bible since I came to know it is its honesty.  It faces facts, it pictures life as it is, it knows us in our weakness.

Are you bound up in some area of your life?  Is there a nagging issue that makes you feel as if chains are wrapped around you?

The psalmist speaks about the day of trouble.  There is not one of us that does not, at sometime or other, pass through a day of trouble.

“Clap your hands all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy.” That’s something more than just religious respectability.

Are there some Scriptures you regularly declare for yourself, your family, your community and your nation?

There’s the divine way out of trouble: you’re in the midst of trouble, pressures are against you, you don’t see any way out. But there’s a way up, a way to God!