19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation.Psalm 68:19                                                                                                                               We are to praise and bless the Lord for he indeed loads us with benefits . . . and He does so daily!  The ESV reads, “Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up . . .”Psalm 68:19   He does both–loads us up and bears us up . . . and much more.  We Christians are a rich people!

To my shame, I fail to trust Him day by day as I should.  Too many times that lack of trust and faith is revealed in my failure to pray daily as I should.  I sometimes think I’d like to see how everything is going to work out for the next year or two or three.  I want to know that I’ll be secure and safe and free from trouble for many years ahead.  But the Lord doesn’t work that way.  He would have us walk by faith and not by sight.  Our duty is to trust Him daily.

I was blessed and challenged from a recent devotional in “Voices From the Past”, which is a compilation of writings of various Puritan authors.  This one was for June 7 written by Thomas Manton.

He writes in part, “God in an extraordinary manner fed his people in the wilderness.  They gathered manna day by day.  Christ taught us to pray ‘Give us this day our daily bread’, not this month or year.  God would like to hear from us each day.  He would not have us too long out of his company, but by a frequent commerce become acquainted and familiar with him.  You should not let a day pass over your head without God hearing from you.  Your patent lasts but for a day.  Your lease from God for your comforts and mercies will expire unless you renew them by prayer.

God would have us come every day to the throne of grace.  He loads us daily that we may not forget him but have new reasons fro praise.  Each day we are in need of new strength, new grace, and new supplies.  Every day affords business, trouble, care, and burdens enough.  We do not need to anticipate and occupy ourselves with the next day.  God would not have us to be overly burdened with worry about tomorrow; he would have us look no further than today.