Friday... There will be some turning in our lives.

Have you found that true?

My son and his family are going through a major turning. Their oldest is a senior in high school and is out looking at universities for next year. That is a major turn in both the parents and the child.

Now the writer of Psalm 80:3 (NLT) talks about a major turn that makes the difference in all the other turns being the right ones. He writes, "Turn us again to yourself, O God. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved." And that is such an important and major turn that will make a major difference in all the other turns in our lives. It really will.

And he says the same thing in verse 7 and in verse 19. He wants to emphasize the importance of this turn.

Do you need to pray that prayer? Have you been making all your turns on your own and you have messed up your life?

If you read the first three chapters of the Bible, you will see what God's plan was for us. But the two he gave the tremendous opportunity to begin to live out what God had in mind for them and for us decided to turn their backs on God's way and look where that turn took them and us.

And the Psalmist writes, "Turn us again to yourself, O God. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved." Yes, because of the choice of those two we all must and have the opportunity to pray this prayer and get back on the path God has planned for us. And he so much wants us to pray, "Turn us again to yourself, O God." Yes, we have the tremendous opportunity to come and pray this prayer and he will do it.

Now if you do that you will always have the opportunity to come to God to ask him to help with all the turns in your life. And our granddaughter is turning to God to help her with this major turn in her life. And he will help her. And it is an unbelievable reality that God will do that.

There will be some turning in our lives and if we make the first turn to God then he will be there for all the other turns. And that is good news, isn't it? There are so many turns in our life and God wants to help us with them. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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