TAKEN FROM WORD FOR TODAY
It is often in times of difficulty that we put down deep roots. The psalmist uses the evocative ex ‘deep calls to deep’ (v.7). Anything that is not from the depth in us will not reach the depth in others’ – I can’t even remember his name and I didn’t think much of his talk. We were both eighteen years of age. He had just joined the army. As he stood up to give the talk he produced his army boots as a visual aid. He called one of the boots ‘trust’ and the other one ‘obey’. He described them as the left and right boot of the Christian life. He only spoke for seven minutes, but his illustration hit home and I have never forgotten it.