Not you, nor friend...only God...

Sharing Spurgeon's devotional with you this Sunday morning:

A Strong Heart

 Wait on the Lord: be of good courage,
 and he shall strengthen thine heart:
 wait, I say, on the Lord. (Psalm 27:14) 

Wait! Wait! Let your waiting be on the Lord!
He is worth waiting for. He never disappoints the waiting soul.
While waiting keep up your spirits.
Expect a great deliverance, and be ready to praise God for it.

The promise which should cheer you
 is in the middle of the verse--
"He shall strengthen thine heart."
This goes at once to the place where you need help.
 If the heart be sound,
 all the rest of the system will work well.
 The heart wants calming and cheering,
 and both of these will come if it be strengthened.
 A forceful heart rests and rejoices
 and throbs force into the whole man.

No one else can get at that secret urn of life, the heart,
so as to pour strength into it.
He alone who made it can make it strong.
God is full of strength, and, therefore,
He can impart it to those who need it.
Oh, be brave; for the Lord will impart His strength to you,
and you shall be calm in tempest and glad in sorrow.

He who penned these lines can write as David did--
"Wait, I say, on the Lord."
 I do, indeed, say it.
 I know by long and deep experience
 that it is good for me to wait upon the Lord.