Good Monday morning! School is back in session around these parts and we expect record high temps today. Oh joy! Actually, none of that matters because I have regained the ability to type with both hands. Yeehaw! Praise the Lord! These days there is little that is more worrisome to me than losing the ability to type. But, I am not supposed to worry. Not quite correct. I believe that Jesus said something like: don't be worried about tomorrow, today's worries are enough for the day. Of course we should never take that as some license to worry all day. After all today is always today, and we can certainly find enough things to worry about on any given day. What we should practice is growing our faith in God each day. One way to start today: put aside some of those worries. Just toss one or two away. Throw one out; don't let in another. Yeah, sounds so easy, right?
One thing I am reminded of during these last few days is that good old-fashioned pain is impossible to ignore. I'm not talking about a little boo-boo, but that pain in a limb where the entire body feels slightly ill in sympathetic partnership with the pain and even moving the uninjured parts causes the pain to give you another good kick. What is all that pain good for though? Job had a time of pain, first emotional and later physical, as the devil was allowed to take away his family and his possessions, and then his health. Job still said those important words: blessed be the name of the Lord. I couldn't help but think that if Job had a copy of God's word as we do, he would have spent much time in reading his Bible while in his pain. As you have probably found out several times by now in your Christian walk, pain brings us back to God right quick.
That pain we have that prevents us from going to work or school and even, just maybe, makes us consider going to that most dreaded of places, the doctor's office, can bring us to the Word and to our knees in prayer. Being laid up for a bit can be a wonderful time of fellowship with God in prayer and in His word. And I have noticed that he doesn't seem to mind my moaning and groaning either. When God says, "I know it hurts, bear up for just a little while." I believe Him and know that He is sympathetic to my pain. I say that because I have heard the "I know it hurts" line from more than one person who had the most insincere delivery I have ever heard in an actor delivering lines. The sad part is that the persons were not actors but medical personnel.
I love the Lord and I love that His Spirit has given me the ability to believe exactly what He says. Glory to God in highest, and glory to Him who is the healer of my ways.
Bucky
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