Here at college, my fellow RA’s and I circulate daily emails with our RD just giving a brief word about what we read in the Scriptures. We do it as a simply point of accountability and encouragement. Yesterday, my friend Ryan sent this and I found it very insightful.

“I will rejoice in your lovingkindness, because you have seen my affliction; you have known the troubles of my soul…” Psalm 31:7….

Sometimes as a Calvinistic guy I handle hard issues and events intellectually, because, since God is in control, I have nothing to fret about…I like this verse because it counteracts that wrong impulse in me…I can rejoice in God’s lovingkindness, not only because it is a sovereign lovingkindness, but because it is a love that also sees and “has known” all my anguish and turmoil. Praise the Lord!