Roasted and Smoked, Please Comfort

For I have become like a wineskin in smoke,
Yet I do not forget Your statutes. Psalm 119:83

We have been roasted with high temperatures lately, plus we have been smoked from distant wildfires. It is not a comfortable time to live and breathe in these here parts. And the weather forecasters say there will be a couple more days yet before relief from the heat arrives. 

The psalmist in that longest of psalms felt much like we do, like a wineskin in smoke. Yet, he or she wanted to assure the Lord that His statutes were not forgotten. The troubles of the times were upon the servant of the Lord, and the hope of salvation seemed afar off. We can relate quite easily to this in our day. And yet, in both cases, the Lord was only a prayer away and constantly watching over us. In Philippians Paul wrote, "The Lord is at hand. Be anxious for nothing."  Our Lord Jesus sent the first disciples out with words of comfort, "And lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the age." The times may not be comfortable, but we are comforted! 

To God be the glory forevermore!

Bucky