Encouraging Scripture

Below are several passages that have meant a lot to our family over the past several months.

Psalm 34:1-8

1 I will bless the Lord at all times;
    his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
² My soul makes its boast in the Lord;
    let the humble hear and be glad.
³ Oh, magnify the Lord with me,
    and let us exalt his name together!

⁴ I sought the Lord, and he answered me
    and delivered me from all my fears.
⁵ Those who look to him are radiant,
    and their faces shall never be ashamed.
⁶  This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him
    and saved him out of all his troubles.
⁷  The angel of the Lord encamps
    around those who fear him, and delivers them.

⁸ Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!
     Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!

Psalm 73: 25+26, 28

²⁵  Whom have I in heaven but you?
    And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
²⁶  My flesh and my heart may fail,
    but God is the strength^[b] of my heart and my portion forever.

²⁸ But for me it is good to be near God;
    I have made the Lord God my refuge,
    that I may tell of all your works.