Sing the praises of the Lord, you his faithful people;
praise his holy name.
Psalm 30:4 (NKJV)
Thought for Today: My dog Henry is a great example of faithfulness. I can be having a miserable day, even yell at him when he barks at people walking the neighborhood. Yet, when I call him to sit with me at night he is right there, as if I had never been harsh with him.
Perhaps you hold some deep seated contempt towards the Lord due to the way that life has treated you. Because of this, you really don't want to praise the Lord and faithfulness to Him is out of the question. When you shed tears over your hurts, do you think that the Lord sits on His throne silently and doesn't care? He loves you so much that the first time you shed a tear over your hurts, He shed one with you. He whose love for you sent Him to the cross doesn't want to see you in pain. Yet, He allows suffering in order that His purpose may be done in you and in me. Trials will not prevail, God's faithfulness to us will.
Faithfulness is not an act but rather a state of mind. Just like Henry is secure in my love for him and knows that I am his master, so too can we be secure knowing that we are in the loving hands of our Master. He wants you to curl up next to Him and feel His love as you pour out your heart to Him in prayer. Will you do that this day?
Monday, February 2, 2015
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Hope
You, Lord, brought me up from the realm of the dead;
you spared me from going down to the pit.
Psalm 30:3 (NKJV)
Thought for Today: When I was a boy staying in a hospital I made friends with another little boy on the same floor. Neil could not speak due to the effects of a brain tumor. Somehow I and a few other boys would communicate with Neil as we gave him rides in the hospital carts that we thought were our toys. We all enjoyed playing with him, even though he could not speak. One day, everything changed as Neil suddenly began talking to us. When we told his parents, they were overjoyed beyond words. Their son, the one who the doctors thought would not talk again, was talking! To his parents, perhaps the Neil that they once knew, the one who talked, had died. Now, he was alive and well.
Have you given up hope? Perhaps you had thought that your life would be one way and it is not. Maybe you have been let down by others. You may have experienced a loss so great that you feel that a part of you has died.
When Neil was discharged from the hospital, he gave me a multicolored pen with many different barrels of ink and buttons to change the color. This reminds me of how the Lord wants us to live our lives. We see things in one color, wanting our lives to go one way. Yet, the Lord so wants us to write our lives in multiple colors, some pleasant, some painful and some in between. In the end, all of the colors will come together to tell our story, the one with threads of God's love running through every corner as evidenced by His mercy, love and long-suffering.
Will you today trust that all of the things that happen to you in this life God will turn into a beautiful picture? Trust in Him, that you may be rescued from the death of a life without hope, for He is our hope in all things, at all times.
you spared me from going down to the pit.
Psalm 30:3 (NKJV)
Thought for Today: When I was a boy staying in a hospital I made friends with another little boy on the same floor. Neil could not speak due to the effects of a brain tumor. Somehow I and a few other boys would communicate with Neil as we gave him rides in the hospital carts that we thought were our toys. We all enjoyed playing with him, even though he could not speak. One day, everything changed as Neil suddenly began talking to us. When we told his parents, they were overjoyed beyond words. Their son, the one who the doctors thought would not talk again, was talking! To his parents, perhaps the Neil that they once knew, the one who talked, had died. Now, he was alive and well.
Have you given up hope? Perhaps you had thought that your life would be one way and it is not. Maybe you have been let down by others. You may have experienced a loss so great that you feel that a part of you has died.
When Neil was discharged from the hospital, he gave me a multicolored pen with many different barrels of ink and buttons to change the color. This reminds me of how the Lord wants us to live our lives. We see things in one color, wanting our lives to go one way. Yet, the Lord so wants us to write our lives in multiple colors, some pleasant, some painful and some in between. In the end, all of the colors will come together to tell our story, the one with threads of God's love running through every corner as evidenced by His mercy, love and long-suffering.
Will you today trust that all of the things that happen to you in this life God will turn into a beautiful picture? Trust in Him, that you may be rescued from the death of a life without hope, for He is our hope in all things, at all times.
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