The Heidelberg Catechism - The Foundations Of Our Faith

 Don't Lose Heart, Be Of Good Heart   Get a Great Heart.    4:16 ἐγκακοῦμεν, So we do not lose heart. 5:6, 8 We are of good courage  (θαρρουμεν). The Past Tells Us Troubles cause a loss of heart.  We could lose heart.  A Tenting Life   Οἴδαμεν γὰρ ὅτι ἐὰν ἡ ἐπίγειος ἡμῶν οἰκία τοῦ σκήνους καταλυθῇ, For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed,  A. A Tenting Life Is Testing. We Are in Perishing Condition    Though our outer self is wasting away, Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, "I have no pleasure in them";2 before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain,3 in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed,4 and the doors on the street are shut---w