Deuteronomy
1:31 Common English Bible
31 and as you saw him do in the desert.
Throughout your entire journey, until you reached this very place, the Lord
your God has carried you just as a parent carries a child.
We all know
the poem, Footprints in the Sand, where a woman has a dream of walking on the
beach with Jesus. Then she notices that
during the darkest times in her life there is only one set of footprints. She asks, “How could you desert me at the
times I needed you most?” Our Lord
responded, “My precious child, I love
you and will never leave you, never, ever, during your trials and testings.
When you saw only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.”
It really happened to me! When my
daughter was only 6 months old she was hospitalized for more than a month with
life threatening illness. We were a
thousand miles from the nearest relative, we didn’t have a church, we had very
little money. I was with my sick child
in the hospital 24 hours a day. I was scared
and lonely. I didn’t know how I would
make it. It was only years later that I
realized it was my dormant faith in the Goodness of God that got me through
those times. Realizing how important it
had been me to have been brought up in the church is what brought me and my
family to St Paul so that they might have the same benefits of knowing the
Goodness of God.
The Serenity Prayer – God grant me
the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things
I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying
one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as
He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He
will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably
happy in this life and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. AMEN.
Thought for the day – “Keep trusting God. He will lead you in every
step of the journey.” ― Lailah Gifty
Akita
