Commenting on Psalm 31:15, My times are in Thy hand, Susie recognized that the practical aim in the passage was to calm the reader and provide a foundation of peace. She asked: “Why then need I trouble or tremble?” Believing that almighty God ordered and kept her life and that His Word was trustworthy soothed her troubled heart.16 She appealed to her readers to apply the doctrines of God’s ordering of their lives, His power, and His care to “your present circumstances, however dark or difficult they may be.”17
