March 6. God regards the lowly. The eternal God is your dwelling place and underneath are the

everlasting arms. Deuteronomy 3327. You may be going through things right now that are painfully

preparing you for some precious service to Jesus and to his people.

When a person strikes rock bottom with a sense of nothingness or helplessness,

he may find that he has struck the rock of ages.

I remember a delicious sentence from Psalm 138, 6 that our family read at our breakfast devotions.

Though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly.

You cannot sink so low in despairing of your own resources that God does not see and

care. In fact, he is at the bottom waiting to catch you. As Moses says, the eternal God is your

dwelling place,

and underneath are the everlasting arms.

Deuteronomy 3327,

Yes, he sees you trembling and slipping.

He could and often did grab you before you hit bottom.

But this time, he has some new lessons to teach.

The psalmist said in Psalm 11971, it is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your

statutes. He does not say it was easy or fun or pleasant.

In retrospect, he simply says,

it was good for me.

Last week, I was reading a book by a Scottish minister

named James Stewart.

He said, in love service, only the wounded soldiers can serve.

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