January 22, 2024
#851 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
December, 2023 Job said to God, “I repent in dust and ashes.” He realized that all of his constructs, all of his suppositions, all of his expectations were vapor in the presence of the living God. Every time I question why things turned out a certain way, or why God hasn’t answered a certain prayer, or why I didn’t get what I wanted, I should have the same response as Job.
January 23, 2024
With this weather, I may have to shift my focus for Golf Tuesday…
#852 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
December, 2023 I make an assumption when I post about the spiritual exercise of golf–I think my reader knows that EVERYTHING can be a spiritual exercise. Golf works for me. A spiritual exercise has more to do with the S/spirit than the exercise.
January 24, 2024
#853 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
December, 2023 I had my annual physical today and, except for a few minor ailments, everything is good. I told my doctor that every year the visit is more trepidatious. He smiled and said that is what aging is about. I remind myself that God already knows the time of my passing and He has selected the right time. That is enough for me. (–comic by David Wilkie)
January 25, 2024
#854 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
December, 2023 Over Christmas we watched The Bishop’s Wife, in which Cary Grant is an angel sent to straighten out a wayward bishop. Everybody except the bishop, who knows he is an angel, is irresistibly attracted to Cary. Reminds me of the verse: “For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing…” (II Corinthians 2:15). That’s what I am supposed to be to all–the fragrance of Christ. Wow. Can’t do it without You, Lord.
January 26, 2024
#855 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
January 2024 I believe I have to be cleansed and healed from the inside (thoughts, feelings, moods) out (words, actions, reactions). That is why God gave me the Holy Spirit. It is a process. The best way I can nurture the process is by paying attention and being responsive.
January 27, 2024
#856 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
October, 2023 If someone responds to something I wrote in a positive, heartfelt way, it swells my heart. That is a mixed blessing. While one side of me will marvel, thinking ‘look what God did’, the other side will puff my chest and think ‘look what I did’. It is a delicate line I walk repeatedly. Thank God I don’t walk it alone.
January 28, 2024
Family Sunday, marital style…
#857 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
October, 2023 Sometimes my marriage seems complex–other times it flows like honey. The human disease is that it’s easier to find fault in someone else than in yourself. Love overcomes that. Marriage is God’s best way of teaching me and Karen to love the way He does. (comic by David Wilkie)
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