Psalm 119:143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.

This is how I feel right now. My personal anguish aside, now is all I can deal with at the moment. So I open the scriptures this morning and this verse is the daily message. It speaks directly into my now. I take delight that God gave inspiration to man thousands of years ago to speak into my now moment.

It isn’t enough that those words were written, they had to find me in this moment. The planning of man cannot do that, it is a God thing. My troubles are still here but my anguish is lessened because once again God has said “I am here for you.”

Dealing with now is difficult. I am human, I have tendencies, I have limitations, things are beyond my control, but I am not alone and that makes all the difference in my now moment. Scoffers will look at my troubles and say there is not help in God for me. They are wrong, they cannot see the anguish has left me.

2 Corinthians 4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

Scoffers cannot see this nor believe this but it is for me every reason to endure these afflictions. It is momentary, it will pass and His presence in this moment is a sign of glory to come. His word is true, His promise is true, His presence makes all the difference for me right now.