Psalm 31:24
24 Be of good courage [chazaq], and he shall strengthen ['amats] your heart [lebab], all ye
that hope [yachal] in the LORD [Yahovah]. KJV-Interlinear
24 Be
strong, and let your heart take courage, All you who hope in the Lord. NASB
In Jesus Christ is all
hope, all trust, all confidence. There
is no other in whom humanity can place such expectations.
Courage, ‘chazaq,’ means
strength, poise, confidence, stout, unmovable, holding fast.
Strengthen, ‘amats,’
means to fortify, confirm, mental courage, physical power, to establish, to
increase.
Heart, ‘lebab,’ means
interior, activity, understanding.
Hope, ‘yachal,’ means
confidence, trust, patient, wait.
The heart is the
circulation of doctrine within your soul, using doctrine, thinking doctrine, applying
doctrine to your everyday life. Of
course you have to know doctrine before you can use it or have it active in
your life.
The activity of bible
doctrine in the soul, fortifies your soul and therefore your life, just as diet
and exercise fortify your physical body.
It completes that which is incomplete, makes strong that which is weak,
establishes that which is unsettled, brings order to that which is
disorganized.
And therefore, a
strengthened soul, generates confidence and trust and hope in Christ, who is
the source of all that you are or can be.
As a mere human, you are incomplete. God brought you into this world as a format,
an incomplete and empty vessel, into which you must pour legitimate knowledge,
understanding, experience and wisdom, from the perspective of yet a second
birth, so that you can become complete and prepared for eternity.
Without Christ, there is
nothing.
Without faith in Christ,
you are nothing.
Without doctrine in your
soul, there is no structure on which to place your life.
Without the use of
doctrine in the soul, there is no completion of your life.
Without completion, there
is no faith, which is power, which is confidence.
God, elevated the word
above His very name, because it is the written word through which we have
access and strength and completion and power and faith.
There is no other source
by which these may be obtained.
