Be Strong and Take Heart

If you've ever felt hemmed in, with email piling up like sandbags and decisions pounding on your door, you already understand Psalm 31. David writes like a leader in a city under siege.

He names the panic, the isolation, the sense of being cut off, and then does something most of us skip. He hands the steering wheel back to God and invites the rest of us to do the same.

Psalm 31:24 becomes a rallying cry, “Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord.” Not feel strong. Don't act tough. Be strengthened, because the Source is with you, and the siege isn't the whole story.