A Message for today

Thou art my rock and my fortress; Therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me. Psalm 31:3.

You meet them in almost every town center. They lounge about wearing shabby, sometimes threadbare clothes, often with a can of beer at their side. Their impoverished dwelling places are certainly not attractive places to live in; so they spend their day outside.

Well-dressed passers-by pay no heed to them. The latter are only concerned about their standard of living. Diaries full of business appointments determine their day. What status symbols can they afford? They have neither time nor interest in the outcasts of society, so self-centered are they.

The former group are the failures; they are the drop-outs or the outcasts of society. They know it, and anyone can see it. But what about the other group? They appear to be successful, but they may not be aware that they, too, can prove to be failures in the end. It is not whether we have been thrown off course by strokes of fate that is decisive, but whether we know the One who can give us a firm footing and reliable guidance in spite of the circumstances of life: the Lord Jesus Christ.

If you can assess your life in the light of God’s Word, and in the final instance that is the proper measure, you will acknowledge the mistakes you have made and confess them before God. Then there is hope for you! The Lord Jesus has a sincere interest in every living person, and He will not pass you by heedlessly. If you know Him as your Savior and Helper, you have a sure and steadfast anchor, not merely for your earthly life, but also for the life beyond the grave (cf. Hebrews 6:19).