Main Thought:
We have been tested and endured trial, but God delivers us as He promised. We will return thanks for all His goodness and love.
Psalm 66:10-20
For you, O God, have tested us;
you have tried us as silver is tried.
You brought us into the net;
you laid a crushing burden on our backs;
you let men ride over our heads;
we went through fire and through water;
yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance.
I will come into your house with burnt offerings;
I will perform my vows to you,
that which my lips uttered
and my mouth promised when I was in trouble.
I will offer to you burnt offerings of fattened animals,
with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams;
I will make an offering of bulls and goats.
Come and hear, all you who fear God,
and I will tell what he has done for my soul.
I cried to him with my mouth,
and high praise was on my tongue.
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart,
the Lord would not have listened.
But truly God has listened;
he has attended to the voice of my prayer.
Blessed be God,
because he has not rejected my prayer
or removed his steadfast love from me!
Hymn Verse
LSB 756:2 Why Should Cross and Trial Grieve Me’
When life’s troubles rise to meet me,
Though their weight may be great, they will not defeat me.
God, my loving Savior, sends them;
He who knows all my woes knows how best to end them.