困難な時期の平安と強さに関する18の聖句

Peace and strength arrive together in these passages, and both are described as things God gives rather than things a person works up. Psalm 29:11 puts them in one line: the Lord gives strength to his people and blesses them with peace. The verbs elsewhere are the same kind. God arms David with strength (Psalm 18:32), emboldens him (Psalm 138:3), and renews the strength of those who hope in him (Isaiah 40:31). The peace is offered with the trouble still…