Dear Ones,
Hope you have a great weekend and keep cool! I am going to take my first shower since my leg injury and I have to do it within an hour of the paramedic coming. I am also stripping our bed down to the mattress and washing everything since I spent lots of time there lately.
Devotions from Judy’s heart
The Lord has so much to show us and say to us if we are open and receptive. I have found it is wise to pay attention when we sense He has something He wants to get across to us. He knows the best timing in our lives, and when we dismiss it and think we will be receptive later, that time may not come for some time or maybe ever. He is the One who takes the initiative and our part is to have an open heart-door and respond. As with the familiar picture of Christ knocking at a door, there is no handle on the outside but we have to open it from the inside, as the Lord never forces His way. He has so much to give us if we are ready and open, and He will change us from the inside out.

The Lord asks all of us to follow Him, just as He said to His disciples. They had no idea where that would take them, and we don’t know either. Hopefully, we are willing wherever that takes us. When Al and I were engaged, I was saying I would go where ever that led because I loved him. At the time, one of the possibilities was the mission field and I was saying yes to that as well, although the Lord never led us to do that. Knowing the Lord, we don’t know what He has in store for us. But we respond in blind trust, because we can fully trust the One who is leading us.

Maybe today we have an inner desire for God, and yet sometimes we seem to be walking in blind faith since we don’t know where He is taking us. But if our desire is for Him, we will begin to know the joy of wanting what He wants for us, no matter what it is. Life gets pretty exciting for even if we go through darkness of understanding, for as it says in Isaiah 45:3, “I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoards in secret places.”

Challenge for today: Remember even when we go through times of darkness, the Lord may be calling us into deeper places to know the depth of His love in new ways.
Blessings on your weekend and prayers and love, Judy