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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Friday... Yes, we need them. We really do

Psalm 8:3-4 (NLT), "When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers - the moon and the stars you set in place - what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them?" Friday... Yes, we need them. We really do. No, not the fact that I can go out my front door and look out at night at the marvels of the sky. I can do that and it is amazing and it takes my breath away each time I see it. Yes, that is a fact but the reality of who did that and the wisdom and the faith that I have to believe that and to marvel that the one who did that cares about me makes such a difference in how I live my life. Yes, God really does. That is so wonderful for us to believe. And that is why faith and wisdom are so important. Now whatever belief you have at how that marvel happened must also be believed through faith. And the sad thing to me is that more and more people have been taught that there is no God and therefore he did not have a h...

Monday... Three ifs and two thens. They go together!

Monday... Three ifs and two thens. They go together! They really do. And this is what caught my attention this morning as I was reading Proverbs 2. Verse 1 (NRSVUE) says, "My child, if you accept my words and treasure my commands within you." Verse 3 (NIV), "Indeed i f you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, Verse 4, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, Verse 5, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God." And verses 9-11, " Then you will understand what is right and just and fair - every good path. For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you." There will always be some effort we must do, some ifs for the thens to be realized in our lives. So many of us want to understand without the ifs. But the thens are so worth, so very worth the effort. Verses 5-6 in the Ampli...

Wednesday... Our unless can turn into useless.

Wednesday... Our unless can turn into useless. It really can. I have found that unless I give the correct email of my wife then I can't get what I wanted. I put an extra i in her email and I have been working for 5 days to get it changed. Unless has been useless. The writer of Psalm 94 uses this word and shows how important it is. Verses 17-19 (NLT) says, "Unless the Lord had helped me, I would have soon settled in the silence of the grave. I cried out, 'I'm slipping!' but your unfailing love, O Lord, supported me. When doubts filled my mind, your comfort gave me renewed hope and cheer." "Unless the Lord had helped me." So many people go on and on and on striving to live their life on their own but they keep slipping and doubting and living without hope and cheer. Yes the Lord has such unfailing love for us, he really does but unless we have a relationship with him and we turn to him and ask him for help then the unless turns in to useless because h...

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