Dear Ones,
Hope you are having a good day! I am writing from home as we traveled ovr 1100 miles and turned around and came home. You can read about it in my devotions! Not the plans we had but….we yield to His plan.
Devotions from Judy’s heart
Sometimes things don’t make sense as we try to figure things out and we can’t seem to connect the dots. But God’s ways are not always our ways and are often beyond our understanding. As it says in Isaiah 55:8-9, that His ways are higher than our ways and His thoughts than our thoughts.
We are home again and you may wonder as we do, why did this happen. We were as far as Bloomington, IL yesterday morning and stopped for gas. I suddenly felt a lump by my tooth and looked in the mirror to find that I had a large abscess but no pain. We called my dentist and sent him a picture and prayed and then Al turned the car around to go back home. Our trip ended after it just got started and I just came back from my dentist and will be having 2 tooth extractions.
This morning I read a prayer by Rev. Kyle Norman who was also dealing with things that didn’t seem to make sense:
“Gracious and Almighty Father, I thank you for equipping me with a mind to think, and an intellect with which I can wrestle with the deep matters of my faith. I thank you for not shying away from my questions. In your gracious love, you invite me to seek always to understand our life together. But your ways are not my ways, and your thoughts are infinitely higher than my own. Thus, there are things about my faith that I do not understand, and at times, this lack of understanding keeps me from stepping further into the life you call me to. There are times when I have a hard time believing what I don’t understand. When this happens, I pray for you to fill me with your grace. Give me the boldness to believe in your direction in my life, even when it makes no earthly sense. Help me to be open to your presence when it catches me unaware.
O Holy Spirit, I pray that you continue to lead me into all truth. Enlighten my mind to understand your ways more deeply in my life and may this understanding always flow from a heart of faith. May I seek to understand you, not as a combat to doubt, but as a road to deeper intimacy and faith. And in those times when my belief wanes, give me the strength to pray “I believe, help my unbelief” (Mark 9:24). pray all these things in the name of my Risen Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen.”
Challenge for today: Yield to God’s ways, even when you don’t understand and trust Him.
Blessings and prayers and love, Judy
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