Tuesday, April 14, 2020
My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me. Psalm 63:8(KJV)
A few weeks
ago I sent an email to all our Rocky Road followers to encourage us as we
continue under the duress of the Coronavirus pandemic. Included in the message were four questions:
1. What hope
sustains you in this crisis?
2. What are
you doing to stay positive?
3. How is
this crisis challenging your faith?
4. How has God spoken to you in
all this?
One family
sent a thoughtful response which pretty much nails my thoughts on what sustains
us during life’s crises, and even when there is no threat:
We may not send a video but would
love to share our answer to question #2. We read from the Holy Bible
daily, (we actually started our daily devotions as a couple approximately 18
months ago). We sing a hymn or two together and lift praises and requests
through prayer to our heavenly Father. These very basic actions deliver
the answer to the other three questions: they deliver hope, develop our faith
and allow God to speak to us.[1]
This response
is dear to my heart because it so reflects what my experience has been in
writing these devotional thoughts; God’s Word says it this way:
I rise early, before the sun is up; I cry out for help and put my hope in your words. Psalm 119:147
The truth,
plain, unvarnished, undiminished, undiluted is that we need a guide for this life
as much as I would need a technology expert if I were to open the back of my
computer and start messing around with all the little wires and such. We come into this world with precious little understanding
of God, other than that stamp of His being on our souls. Daily seeking in hot pursuit after knowing
God is the calling of every human spirit.
It is that seeking after God that made King David and his son, Solomon
wise.
But, it’s not
in the method (early morning, late evening, standing, sitting, which version of
the Bible), it’s all about the surrender of the heart. A surrendered, willing heart is God’s fertile
soil for what He wants to accomplish in and through a person.
Sometimes it’s as simple as carrying a meal to a homebound person or
taking time with the next-door neighbor’s child who wants to talk. Or stocking your car with bottles of water,
or McDonald’s coupons to hand to that homeless guy you’ve passed too many times
without meeting a need for the daily bread that was his prayer in the sign he’s
holding up with a stained, leathery hand.
God’s Word is more than a light for your path, and
a lamp for your feet; it is also a word of encouragement
for the downtrodden through your actions.
For You Today
You chew on
that as you hit the Rocky Road; have a blessed day!
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