Psalms 39:8

"Deliver me from all my transgressions:

Make me not the reproach of the foolish."

Here is the glory of Old Testament faith. How heroic it is, that in the midst of the riddles of the present, and the looming darkness of that night in which no man can work, and the pitiful brevity of our earthly pilgrimage, that faith lays hold on God as the ultimate reality. He created us; he is the answer; he is the Redeemer; he is our hope and our salvation!