GOD IS THE STRENGTH OF MY HEART.

 

God is the strength of my heart.
Psalm 73:26

 
GOD in covenant - God in Christ - is the believers rock.
 
The rock on which he builds his hopes,
  he secures his treasures,
  where he finds safety, and
  on which he stands unmoved and firm,
    amidst storms and tempests.
 
God is the strength, or strengthener of his heart;
  which he does by the promises he has given,
  the prospects which he unfolds,
  the foretaste of glory which he imparts, and
  by the exercise of the graces which he produces.
 
Apart from God, the Christian is weakness itself;
  in union with God, he is stronger than all his foes.
 
If God is the strength of our hearts,
  we exercise confidence in him,
  renounce all dependence on any besides him, and
  go in all our weaknesses to him.
 
If God is our strength,
  we can have no ground for fear,
  no occasion for doubts,
  no reason to look into the future with foreboding.
 
If God is our strength,
  he will never fail us,
  Satan will never overcome us,
  the world will never conquer us,
  nor will any of the billows of affliction overwhelm us.

O to realize that God is our strength,
  the rock and refuge of our souls!
 

Then let me on his care rely,

He is a God for ever nigh,

To guard me by his power;

Though heart, and flesh, and friends shall fail,

While strong in God we must prevail,

In the most trying hour.

 
James Smith 1849