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.
