Prepare Your Soul for Trial

You have given me relief when I was in distress. PSALM 4:1 + Prepare Your Soul for Trial   Truly He is a faithful and kind God, who for His own name's sake alone deems us, who are unworthy and evil, worthy of such great blessings. And who can be worthy in the presence of such great majesty except one whom He Himself has made worthy? This indeed is what reason affirms. For He is the highest and has no need of anyone's blessings. Hence these brief words comprise all of the blessings of God that He offers in adversity. However, [the psalmist] correctly made mention of his prosperity first. For God first adorns and equips, He first justifies and makes alive, and then He quickly subjects to battle, so that strength may increase, which other ... continue reading