Wow, today was busy. Work, then home for errands, another evening appointment and then home for housework. Now it is blog time.
I got up early this morning and was reading in the Psalms. It truly amazes me how much God speaks to us. It is really a matter of perspective on how each person takes away from the Bible what is needed to sustain life. This book is so incredible because of how versatile it is for everyone. No matter if you are on a tremendous high or a devastating low, all the help, encouragement, power, support, etc. is here. So it is really up to each of us to appropriate what we read and then apply it.
I was recounting to my friend today some of the stories I lived through with my four teenage children when I was a single parent. It was hard and at times seemed impossible to bear but I survived and my children are well adjusted adults today. It is just so hard when you are in the fire or eye of a storm to see that help is all around. I talk to many who are dealing with stuff in their life and they feel hopeless, lost, alone, confused. It causes me to remember my own bouts with turmoil and how I got through. It was perspective. When everything looked at its worst God was actually closer than I knew. It was my perspective that made me dig in and keep going when screaming in my ear was, "Give Up!"
So where are you? If you are struggling, He's there. If you are rejoicing, He's there. If life is mundane, He's there. And we have at our fingertips His love letters, instruction manual, road map and therapeutic guide.
Lord, can we all be quick to run to your Word for our help. May we read of friends that have journeyed through everything we face and made it. We have to look no further than the Bible for all the answers. Thank you for preserving history for us. Amen
As I'm sitting here rejoicing and now reminiscing I am in awe yet again. God is my completeness. He's been a loving father I never had, a husband when I was alone and is now my reigning King. How can it get any better.
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