Saturday... It is hard to really understand but He understands.

I have lived a lot of places. I have experienced a lot of things but that doesn't mean I understand everything that people go through. This year we bought a new house for our home, now that is something that I have never understood but now I do. It is way different than renting. It really is. I now understand more than I did before.

Now there is also a commonality and understanding for all of us who have had Covid. The aloneness you feel when you can't touch the people you love, your deep emotions you feel when you can't be with your wife when she is in the hospital and you fear she won't come home. It makes that mask you wear so much more important and that shot you take more necessary because you don't want to go through that again.

Hebrews 2:18 (NLT) says, "Since he himself has gone through suffering and testing, he is able to help us when we are being tested." Jesus understands what it is like to be a human and He wants to help us.

Verses 14-15 (MSG) says, "Since the children are made of flesh and blood, it's logical that the Savior took on flesh and blood in order to rescue them by death, taking it into himself, he destroyed the Devil's hold on death and freed all who cower through life. scared to death of death." He who is God understands what it is to die. He understands what it is to suffer. He understands what it is to be tested. He understands what it is to be rejected. He understands what it is we are going through right now because He became flesh and blood and he conquered death. It is hard to understand but He who is God understands what it is to be human. And He wants to help us and He is able to help where help is needed.

Now I can put my trust in someone like that. It really is hard to understand but He understands and he want to help us. He really does. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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Monday... He did it by Himself

Isaiah 44:24b (AMP), "I am the Lord, Maker of all things. Who alone stretches out the heavens, Who spreads out the earth by Myself." Monday... He did it by Himself. Many have a tendency to think very highly of themselves and what they can do. Oh we do have great ability but we are not the source. Yes it is important to have self-confidence but we are limited. The prophet Isaiah in 44:9-10 (NLT) says, "How foolish are those who manufacture idols. These prized objects are really worthless. The people who worship idols don't know this, so they are all put to shame. Who but a fool would make his own god - an idol that cannot help him one bit?" Now later in verse 24 (AMP) he writes, "For the Lord, your Redeemer, and He who formed you from the womb says, 'I am the Lord, Maker of all things, Who alone stretches out the heavens, Who spreads out the earth by Myself.'" I love that. "By Myself." Now we do need confidence but we are foolish to ma...

Friday... We have this hope of expectancy.

Psalm 5:3 (NLT), "Listen to my voice in the morning Lord. Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly." Friday... We have this hope of expectancy. Now David found a great way to start his day. He says in Psalm 5:1-3 (NLT), "O LORD, hear me as I pray." And that is a great place to start. It really is. Morning sunrise He goes on, "Listen to my cry for help, my King, my God, for I pray to no one but you." And that is so important. We don't try to pump ourselves up by ourself. No, we pray to no one but you, God, my LORD, my King. Now this relationship with God is so, so very important. And then David says, "Listen to my voice in the morning, LORD. Each morning I bring my requests to you" And that is so great. And then he says, "and wait expectantly." Yes, we have this hope of expectancy. We are experienced. That is what a relationship with God and a moment by moment connection does. It makes a difference in our daily wa...

Friday... Yes, we can know this to be true.

Psalm 12:6 (NLT), "The Lord's promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over." Friday... Yes, we can know this to be true. Maybe this is what you want to say in this day in which we live. Psalm 12:1-2 (MSG) says, "Quick, I need your helping hand! The last decent person just went down, all the friends I depend on gone. Everyone talks in lie language; lies slide off their oily lips. They doubletalk with forked tongues." Do you ever feel that way?" Have you found that to be true? Well David the writer of this Psalm continues and says in verse 6 something to encourage us, to lift us up, to give us hope. Psalm 12:6 (NLT) says, "The Lord's promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over." The Message Paraphrase says verses 6-8 this way, "God's words are pure words, pure silver words refined seven times in the fires of his word-kiln, pure on earth as well as in heaven, God, keep ...

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