Well, it's my intention this
morning to conclude this series, which started, oh, well over
two years ago, in Psalm 119. Then we had a long break for
most of last year, and then since Christmas we've started up again
with a few more messages from the last half. And I want to
conclude it today in verses 161 to 168, thereabouts. Of course, let me remind you
that Psalm 119 is 22 sections of 8 verses, so 176 verses altogether,
but 22 sections to coincide with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
So, the last three are Resh, Shin and Tau. Those are the letters of the
Hebrew alphabet, and no doubt this was an aid to memory for
the scholars of the Word of God. These little sections, what are
they all about? They're all extolling the Word
of God and finding the truth of a sinner's communion with
God. How can a sinner commune with God? It's in these verses
of this psalm. Obviously, it's throughout the
whole Word of God, but here it is. Here is the way of life. Here is the truth of life. Is
this not the thing that we need to seek, to walk in? And what
is, who is the way, the truth, and the life? It's the Lord Jesus
Christ. And what is his name? At the
end of the Bible, in the book of Revelation, in Revelation
19, is it? I think it's 19. On his thigh
was his name, the Word of God. In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. So it's about
Him, and it's about communion with God, and how that communion
is made possible. Not made possible, accomplished,
in the doing and dying and rising of that One who is God manifested,
the Lord Jesus Christ. That One in whom, in whose image,
We originally were created sinless, and then the fall came and ruined
it all. And you look at the world and
say, why do so few believe? Because of that. Because their
heart is far from God. They've been blinded by the God
of this world. In verse one of this psalm, if
you turn back two pages, it is in my Bible anyway, to the first
verse, blessed the undefiled in the way. Blessed the undefiled,
that's the Lord Jesus Christ, he's blessed. Blessed is the
undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord, his people
walk in him. Blessed are they that keep his
testimonies and that seek him with the whole heart. You see,
it's about this communion with God. This is the way. Walk you
in it. This is the way. We read in this
Psalm, verse 105. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet. This is the way. Walk you in
it. It's a light to my path. This is the way. Walk you in
it. Narrow is the way that leads to life. And few there be that
go in there at. Seek to be amongst that few that
go in that way. This is the way, walk you in
it. It agrees with so much more, all of the Word, but Psalm 73
and verse 24, Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel. Don't you want the... You know,
people go to... Always, it really gets me when some tragedy happens.
And we're assured by the BBC newsreaders, not that I listen
to them very much these days, but we're assured by them that
those affected by the tragedy are being helped by counsellors. Counsellors, people with an entirely
godless worldly view of life in the vast majority of cases.
Wouldn't you sooner have this as your counsellor? the God of
the universe, thou shalt guide me with thy counsel. It's God's
counsel, it's God's advice, it's God's wisdom that I want. And
afterward? afterward, in this life, after
this life, receive me to glory. What wonderful words. You shall
guide me with your counsel and afterward receive me to glory. This is why this is such a blessing. There are 22 different perspectives
of the same jewel. You might superficially read
it and just think, oh it's the same thing repeated over and
over again, but it isn't actually. If you imagine one magnificent
diamond, what was that one? Was it the Koh-i-Noor diamond
or something like that that's in the crown jewels? And you
could look at it and go, oh, there it is. Oh, and there's
another one similar to it. But actually, if you turn it over, and this
is 22 different perspectives on the same jewel. This is God
who is the creator, who is the sustainer. You're thinking. You're
breathing, you're living, you're conscious. Now, for one reason,
there is a God. You didn't evolve. Don't believe
such stupid nonsense. It's just utter ignorance to
say that. This is God, the creator, the
sustainer, the source of life, the judge with whom we all have
to do, without whom We truly know nothing of our origins.
Don't think that science, falsely so called, has given you a perfectly
feasible explanation of our origins. It's done nothing of the sort.
No. Without God, we know nothing
of our origins. We know nothing of our being,
who we are, what we are. We know nothing of our life.
We know nothing of our eternal destiny. But He has revealed
it. How foolish! How blind! to live in ignorance and unbelief
of Him. You know, young people, as young
as you are, you say, oh, there's so many things I want to do.
Oh, above all of them, make this your aim, to know the living
God in whom is the truth of life and salvation and justice. To know Him. This is it. To know
Him. You see, it describes those who
don't believe in verse 155. Salvation is far from the wicked,
for they seek not thy statutes. Salvation. What do I mean by
salvation? I mean being saved from the just consequences of
our sin and rebellion against God. God is holy and cannot overlook
sin. He's a purer eyes than to behold
iniquity. He cannot overlook sin. Salvation
is salvation from that situation, being saved out of it. The soul
that sins, it shall die, but salvation is for those who believe
him. Salvation is far from the wicked. Who are the wicked? Oh, you think
people that do really bad things? Well, yes, but really, the ultimate
wickedness is disbelieving God. The ultimate sin is calling God
a liar, God who cannot lie. unbelief. You know, I have doubts. You talk to many in the church
of this land, the Church of England, and they'll be quite proud of
the fact that they have doubts. Doubts are not things to be proud
of, they're things to be ashamed of. Don't doubt God. God cannot
lie, why would you doubt him? No, salvation is far from unbelievers. Why? Because they seek not thy
statutes. They don't want to know. They're
not interested. They think it's rubbish. They
don't want to waste their time turning aside to look at it.
No, they will not seek Jesus. They won't look. But Jesus said,
seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened. As all
who sought and found, people here, people out there listening
now, who know the Lord and know that they're saved in Him and
trust their God, they know these things. In verse 161, I rejoice
at thy word as one that findeth great spoil. Verse 161, princes
have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart standeth in awe
of thy word. 162, I rejoice at thy word as
one that findeth great spoil. 165, great peace have they which
love thy law, and nothing shall offend them. Standing in awe
of God's word, rejoicing at the truth of God's Word, the spoil
that we find there, and the peace and the calm that comes in loving
God's truth. Loving God's truth. Not just
studying, not just head knowledge, but loving God's truth. So that's
my three points this morning. Or, joy and peace, that's the
title of the message, awe, joy and peace. Standing in awe, verse
161, princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart
standeth in awe of thy word. The world, the powers that be
all around, are opposed to any who have the faith of God's elect,
the truth of God's elect. It's been so down the ages to
various degrees, you know, the persecution in the 1600s, you
know, I regularly use as an example, there were the martyrs, but you
know, John Bunyan, A simple man for preaching the truth of God
was locked up in Bedford jail for 12 years to stop him preaching
to his fellow man, and yet look what God did with him. But the
world powers are opposed to any that have the true faith of God,
the faith of this book, the faith of God's elect. That's Titus
1 verse 1, by the way, the faith of God's elect. It's completely
opposed, and never more so than it is in the days in which we
live. Day by day, the deception in this little season of Satan's
liberty to deceive the nations again, the deception gets worse
and worse. The evil plans thought up, conjured
up by so-called rulers who were supposed to respect as rulers,
but nevertheless in these days the things that they have come
out with and the situations that they have tried to impose upon
people just shows how much evil that there is in the kingdom
of this world. They try to make life difficult. Princes have persecuted me without
a cause. They try to make life difficult
for believers. You say, give me an example.
Okay, simple one. I've noticed one or two cases
recently of, I don't know whether they're true believers as far
as we would know, but let's say that they are. Christian teachers,
teachers who are genuine Christians, being, well in Ireland, one was
put in prison. Do you know why? because as a
Christian who understands and knows God's truth regarding gender
and sex and the way that we're made, he understands that male
and female created he then, he understands that, but some child
in his class, I can't remember the details, but let's say it's
a boy, had decided, no, he's not really a boy, he wants to
be a girl. He wants to be called a girl. And in the classroom,
please don't call me him and he, call me she or her, or if
not that, they or them. And the teacher, no, I'm not
doing that, because it's patently obvious what you are. I'm not
going along with this. And what did they do? What did
the authorities do in Ireland? they put him in prison and they
let him out and then they put him back in prison because he
wouldn't recant it's it's almost like the evil justice of 400
years ago you know My heart, in contrast, look at this, princes
have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart, the believer's
heart, standeth in awe of thy word. The wicked, the unbelievers,
have no desire to seek the truth of God, but my heart standeth
in awe of thy word. Standeth isn't moved by this
world. Whatever the world thinks, whatever
it tells us we ought to think, you know I often say that that's
the difference from when I was teaching in the 1970s to today. We consciously tried as teachers
Not to teach the pupils what to think, but how to think for
themselves. That's completely turned on its
head. Now, here is the truth, and if you don't go along with
it, you get cancelled. Life is made... Princes have
persecuted me without a cause. No. The believer stands in awe
at the Word of God, isn't moved by the world, but in contrast,
stands in awe at God's Word. Do you know what it is to stand
in awe? You know, you can stand in awe at sights in nature, can't
you? If you've ever stood and seen
a magnificent waterfall, I mean, there are not that many huge
waterfalls in this country, but sometimes when you get close
to one, there's one called High Force up in Teesdale, And on
the world scale of waterfalls, it's quite a ditty little thing.
But when you stand next to it, you stand in awe looking at it.
You look at a tall building. I remember the first time as
a young teenager, I went climbing in the Lake District, which I
grew up next to. But I was never allowed up on
the mountains because I was always told, if you go up there, you
will die. This is a death trap. You mustn't go up there. But
the time came when me and some friends and a guide decided we
were going, and we went. And I remember the first time
I stood on the peak of even a modest mountain, in the modest peaks
of the Lake District, and looked down, I was absolutely, as they
say, gobsmacked. I stood in awe at the sight.
It was just nothing I'd ever seen before. It just took my
breath away, looking at that sight. It grabbed attention to
the exclusion of all else. What is it about God's word that
makes the believer stand in awe? Let me give you some thoughts.
What is it about this word? Why do I stand in awe at this
book? Well, number one, the very fact
that there is this book, that we have it, the very existence
of this book. I stand in awe at that, that
the unseeable, unknowable God who has created all things, whose
intelligence, whose supreme divine intelligence is behind everything
we see, whatever false scientists try to tell you, This book declares it. The unknowable
God has revealed his nature in this book. He's revealed his
nature in creation, yes, but what you can learn of God in
this book is beyond anything you'll see in nature. He's revealed
his nature. He's revealed his holy, righteous
sovereignty over all things. That there is such a book declaring
such a being I stand in awe at this, that the thoughts of God,
the purposes, the intentions, the plans of God, the justice
of God, the holiness of God, the grace of God, are all here,
clear to see. I stand in awe at creation. I remain without excuse for not
seeing God if I only have creation to look at. But I only find the
truth in this book, in this Word. I stand in awe at its production
and its preservation down the years, its miraculous preservation
and wide availability. Look where we are today. Look
how historical artifacts are distorted and twisted and fragments
and forged. But this book is intact. This
is the Word of God. I wouldn't say it's 100% accurate
in the translation we have, but it's as near as we can practically
get in these days, to such an extent that we're not left in
any doubt or any danger of error by resorting to this Word for
the truth. This is the infallible truth
from heaven, written under inspiration. Now, I stand in awe at this.
This book, in which I can't find a solitary error, this book was
written down many years under inspiration of God by sinful
men. It was sinful men that wrote
this book. I stand in awe at that. How complex it is beyond
fathoming. Who can fathom the depths of
this? Who can plumb down to the depths of this book? You can't.
And yet it's so simple, a child can grasp at the same time. And
Jesus said, if you don't grasp it as a child, you cannot enter
the kingdom of heaven. The deepest of truth is so economically
and simply revealed. You know what great lengths novelists
go to, to weave a story, and it's so complicated, and it takes
you so long to read it, and yet, think of this, yeah? How else
would I know this? that 2 Corinthians 5.21, that
he who knew no sin was made sin, that we might be made the righteousness
of God in him. What's that answering? How can
a man be just with God? How can a man be saved? Or a
woman be saved? How can we be saved from the
consequences of our sins? The Son of God took those sins
and satisfied the justice of God for those sins And in the
process, and I don't know how, but here it is declared, the
people that he chose in Christ before the foundation of the
world were made the righteousness without which no man shall see
the Lord. And his people were all made
that righteousness in him. Can you imagine some human writer
trying to explain that? And yet there, he made him who
knew no sin to be made sin. that we might be made the righteousness
of God in Him. I stand in awe at this word. The deepest truth, so economically
and simply revealed. many diverse writers, thousands
of years of history, but utterly consistent in its message. It's
the same message, but layers of truth revealed, layer on layer,
precept upon precept, says Isaiah. The same gospel in every book. What, you mean the New Testament
is not different? No, it's exactly the same. It's
just more explicit. It's just clearer. That which
is implicit in the Old Testament is made explicit in the New Testament. It's blood redemption. satisfying
offended justice, and thereby accomplishing salvation. David's
Bible, who I think is the writer of this psalm, was a fraction
of what we've got now. But it's exactly the same message,
exactly the same message. Paul You know, and John, the
apostles in the New Testament, what they say is entirely consistent
with the book of Job, which we think is the oldest book ever
written, the books of Moses, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,
Deuteronomy, the Psalms of David, You know, 1 Samuel 2. It's all
utterly consistent. It's salvation from the consequences
of the fall. What earthly literature is its
equal? Shakespeare is impressive. You
know, you look at that and there's some good lessons for life in
there, but no, it's nowhere near. Nowhere near. It's nowhere near
the equal of this book. Nowhere near. Verse 160. Thy
word is true from the beginning. That's what the Word says about
itself. Thy Word is true from the beginning. God, who cannot
lie, inspired it. Although sinful men down many
years wrote it, it's entirely consistent because it's the same
one Holy Spirit of God who inspired it. The best of literature is
not without flaws, but this is entirely without flaws. Sanctify
them through thy truth. We read right at the start, John
17, verse 17. Sanctify them through thy truth.
Thy word is truth. Pontius Pilate asked Jesus, what
is truth? Thy word is truth. And he who
is the word is the truth. I am the way, the truth, and
the life. No man comes to the Father but
by me, said the Lord Jesus Christ. He who is the word is the truth. This towers above all human books
combined. So I stand in awe. Let God be
true, says Romans 3 verse 4. How many opinions are there?
Let God be true, but every man a liar. By comparison, every
man is a liar in whatever they think, but God is true. So, verse
162, I rejoice at thy word as one that findeth great spoil. Great spoil. There's an allusion
there to victory in battle. You know, the battle, you read
the history of battles. There was the claiming of the
spoil at the end of the battle. The riches, the possessions of
the ones defeated was there for the victors to take for themselves.
After the toil, after the danger, after the wounds, after the bloodshed
of the fight, there's the reward of the spoil, the possessions
of the defeated enemy. There's a contrast from the battle
scene of the danger of death to a rejoicing over the great
spoil that the battle has won, the possession of riches. So,
the believer who has sought the truth of God, salvation is far
from the wicked for they seek not thy statutes, but the believer
has been moved by God's Spirit to seek the truth. The believer
who has sought the Lord's statutes and struggled to obtain and has
made the effort that men in general don't make, all under the inspiration
and movement of the Holy Spirit, comes into rejoicing at finding
and mining the rich seams of God's truth. You know, miners
will know about this, it's not something that goes on greatly,
it used to be in this country. You would find a rich seam of
top quality coal, and oh joy, joy, joy, rejoicing, we've found,
look at this, and it goes on and on, and you get down there
and you mine it and you get it out and make use of it. Great
spoil, the spoil for which the victor didn't labour apart from
the battle. He didn't labour to create it,
and it's there to be gathered up. The natural man, without
the life-giving Spirit of God, can't gather up any of it. The
natural man doesn't receive the things of the Spirit of God.
They're foolishness to him. Neither can he know them. Why?
Because they're spiritually discerned. He can't see it. He can't drink
it in. He can't feed his soul on it.
But the believer can. He sees its rich truth. The being
of God. The righteousness of God. The
justice of God. The grace of God. in saving sinners
from that consequence of the fall and justly saving them not
violating his justice in seeing these things oh wow i stand in
awe the promises of god the kingdom of god compared set against the
kingdom of this world the kingdom of satan the blessings it rejoices
his soul What did Paul say in Philippians several times? Rejoice
in the Lord. And again, I say rejoice. Why?
Because if you know these things, oh, look at the things I've just
acquired. Look at the money I've just got. Look at the possessions
I've just gotten. You're happy for a little while.
And then they all prove to be broken cisterns that can hold
no water. But this is treasure that you
cannot lose once you've got it. No. And it doesn't come all at
once, either. I rejoice as one that findeth
great spoil. You know, they would sort through
the spoil, and they would find some obvious bits, and then they'd
have to dig a bit more for the more valuable bits. You know,
it's like that, isn't it, with stargazing. If I'm in this room
on a starry night, and I hope that tonight might be starry
if the clouds stay away, But if I go out of this room and
make sure it's dark outside, don't put any lights on, it's
fairly dark out there. I don't see much to start with.
I might see Jupiter, the brightest object in the moonless sky. And
then I might see another planet. Oh, and then the brightest of
the stars. And in time, as my eyes get more
and more accustomed to the dark, I see more and more constellations.
And then perhaps if I go to a dark enough place, and it isn't here,
but if I go to a dark enough place, the Milky Way. I see that
stretched out above me. You see, it's like that spoil,
gathering spoil. There are deep, deep riches.
The believer possesses the riches, rejoices in the provision and
comfort of them, discerns the value. You know Jesus told the
story of the man who found the pearl of greatest price. And
when he'd found it, he went and sold everything else that he
had so that he should possess that. That's what it is with
the Gospel of God in the Word of God. When you find it, everything
else that you might possess in this world becomes a secondary
issue, which you can take or leave as God determines. But
no, this word is your food. Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Some of
it is lying on the surface, simply to pick up. The simplest tenets
of the gospel are lying there on the surface, not to be understood,
but to be picked up and chewed over and rejoiced in and possessed. but some more need to be mined
with effort and determination. The flesh struggles to rejoice
in some aspects of God's Word. The believer is still two natures
of flesh and spirit, and the flesh struggles to rejoice in
some aspects of God's Word. The justice of God, the retribution
of God for sin, that all sin must be punished. The idea of
reprobation, that if God has chosen a people of himself, that
salvation is of the Lord, then it must be by obvious consequence
that many are reprobate, many are outside of that salvation.
And the flesh struggles with it. But the new man believes
God and goes higher. What do we do when we find a
difficult concept in the Word of God? And we stumble over it? No, we don't stumble over it.
We go higher. We go like Abraham when he was
arguing with the Lord, not arguing, but presenting his case before
the Lord. Would Sodom be destroyed if his
nephew is still there, his nephew and his family? Righteous Lot,
as he's called later in the New Testament. Righteous Lot? Righteous
Lot? Today's legalistic churches wouldn't
have Lot in their congregation, he lived in Sodom, didn't he?
But he's called Righteous Lot. And Abraham argues with God,
would you pour your fury on Sodom if my nephew is still there?
No, not if your nephew is still there. But Abraham leaves it
contentedly in God's hands. Shall not the judge of all the
earth do right? Yes, of course, God is good.
The Lord is upright, he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness
in him. Romans 9 verse 14, is there unrighteousness
with God because he chooses some and not others? God forbid. The
soul that sees the truth of the word of God rests joyfully in
higher, clearer truths. I rejoice it thy word as one
that findeth great spoil. And then finally, verse 165,
great peace have they which love thy law, and nothing shall offend
them. You know this world, don't you
find increasingly This world is obsessed with mental health. I'm not suggesting that there's
no such thing as mental illness, not at all. But this world is
obsessed with mental health. It was never obsessed with it
when I was a child at school. Believe me, it wasn't. I won't
say anymore. But it's all exacerbated by modern
life pressures, by social media pressures, by worldly godless
principles. And the reason? There is no love
for the law of God. There is no love. The world's
counsellors have no love for the law of God. Law? What do
we mean by the law of God? all the revelation of God, not
just the Ten Commandments, not just the wider commandments,
all the revelation of God, His holiness, His justice, His gospel
grace in Christ. Believers love it because it
is His law. I love it because it's His law. He has magnified it above all
His name. Believers love it because it
confirms their peace with God. How does the Word of God confirm
the peace of believers with God? It does it like this. In the
Old Testament, it was all through the animal sacrifices as pictures
of blood redemption. In the New Testament, it's explicit.
Paul writes to the Colossians, we have peace. with God. Peace with God through the blood
of His cross. The blood of His cross has satisfied
the demands of divine justice for forgiveness of sins, for
the sins to be dealt with. They're punished, they're dealt
with, they're paid for in Christ. The blood of His cross buys that
peace with God. God, we read, is angry with the
wicked every day. God is angry with the wicked
every day. We read that it is a fearful thing to fall into
the hands of the living God. Hebrews says that, that's New
Testament. A fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living
God. Our God, it says, is a consuming
fire. A fire. Would you fall into a
consuming fire willingly? No. The more truth lovers gather
up the spoil of God's Word, the more God's peace is confirmed
in their souls by the promises of grace. You gather up the spoil
that you find in the Word of God and it repeatedly assures
you and gives you peace, peace in your soul. Whatever the trials
of life, whatever the persecutions of princes, verse 161, princes
have persecuted me without a God, whatever they are, then this
is the believer's response. Psalm 4 verse 8, I will both
lay me down in peace and sleep. Whatever evil's going on in this
world, whatever higher motives there are for the rulers in this
world to go along with the kingdom of Satan, which is what they're
doing, don't be disturbed by it, believer. I will both lay
me down in peace and sleep, for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell
in safety. Peace in the possession of the
truth of God that He causes all things to work together for good
to those that love God, to those who are called according to His
purpose. All things, the things that seem
bad to the flesh, all things, because they're for the eternal
good of His people. For what could be better? than
to be found on that day of judgment, which is surely coming, to hear
those words from our God, our Jehovah Jesus, come you blessed
of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation
of the world. What a blessing. And it says
in the margin, if you have a marginal reference to your Bible, it says,
Nothing shall offend them, nothing, they shall have no stumbling
block, is another translation of it. Not that they won't experience
difficulties in loving God's law, but they won't ultimately
trip over them to their eternal ruin. Charles Spurgeon told the
story of a trip, a leisure trip he made from Glasgow to the Isle
of Arran down the River Clyde on a steamer. This would be in
the mid-1800s, late 1800s. And it was night time and it
was stormy weather. And he said he could see in the
gloom of the night there was enough moonlight, starlight,
whatever, to see the great mass of the Isle of Arran appear out
of the gloom, and the storm was battering against the ship. And
he said, the captain was very wise. He didn't steam straight
ahead to try and knock Arran out of its way so that he could
go on. No, rather, he wisely got into
the lee of the island, the shelter of the island, and he dropped
anchor there, and he waited for the storm to subside. So, With
spoil that we find difficult, the spoil of God's words, the
truths of God's words, if you find them difficult, listen,
believe it. This is good advice. Don't go hammer and tongs into
them and lose all all else, because if you can't get a decent answer
to this, then you're not going on. No. No. Do what that story
illustrates. Get into the shelter. Drop anchor. Wait. Seek clarity. Wait for
daylight. Ask God. Ask God. Often what
seemed to be the biggest obstacles, I remember once finding the doctrine
of election an enormous obstacle. when I didn't really understand.
And that doctrine, of course, has become the greatest of comfort
because it's trust in God, who is sovereign over all. In God's
time, he will reveal it with his perspective, which he'll
pour into the believing soul, then the clarity will come. This
book is the greatest treasure this world affords. Here it is,
even today. Here it is. If you haven't got
a copy and you're hearing this, go and get a copy. Read it. Try and get a King James version.
I know it's old language, but as translations in the English
language go, this is so much more reliable than others. It
really is. It really is. I used to use other
versions until I clearly saw that some of the spoil was false
spoil. It was not right. Simple things
which are at the core of the gospel, get one of these. Hide
it in your heart. Get to know it like the streets
of your town. You know when you move to a new
place, Well, 19 months ago we moved here, and we had a very
sketchy view of the layout of the streets around here. Now
we're getting to know it a lot, lot better. Try and do that with
the Bible. Get to know it like the streets
of your town. Seek the Lord's Spirit to give
you understanding of it. And when understanding proves
difficult, what to do? Drop anchor in the lee, in the
shelter of the obstacles, until it becomes clearer, until the
sun rises, till the wind drops. Go up higher, go up higher to
the overriding truth of God's omnipotent goodness, of God's
righteousness, of God's grace to sinners. And in so doing,
Daily you will be awestruck, awestruck. Daily you will be
filled with joy at the truth revealed. Daily you will be settled
in the peace which God alone gives to his people. Amen.