Dear Ones,
Thank you for your prayers for Susan as I was able to talk to her yesterday. Her nurse dialed the phone for her and so we were able to talk a long while. She is thankful for your prayers and sounded happy and just great. She voiced that she had the best nurse ever, care was wonderful, food good etc. I still don’t have the name of the hospital or her room number, but she will let me know by the next call. Right after her call friends knocked on our door with a bag of groceries of just the things we were running out of. Infact, I had finished the broth Ann made for me in the morning and then we got delicious soup, salad, fruit etc. If that wasn’t enough our son called after that, so it was raining blessings all afternoon. 
Devotions from Judy’s heart
How often do we settle for partial truth that only leaves us with anxiety and frustration? Jesus said He is the way the truth and the life and no one come to the Father, except through Him. (John 14:6) Jesus is truth and I would suspect we all are guilty of accepting only partial truth at times, which ends up causing us great harm. For example, we may say we know God loves us, but in our hearts have a hard time believing He loves us when we fail. So, we end up trying to earn God’s love because we believe the enemy’s lie rather than the truth of what God’s word says.
It is important that we all are truth seekers basing our confidence in the Lord. The Word is to be our guide in our daily lives, for if the Word says it, it is truth. We don’t need to check with what our culture says as it often opposite of what God says and His word trumps all. Life actually gets simplified when we accept that God’s word is true and live in harmony with what it says. Our circumstances and our feelings are not to dictate because God’s Word is the only truth that really matters. We may not feel like God loves us, but we have only to turn to the familiar John 3:16 to find that He loves us so much He sent His son to die for us. The enemy likes to play with our emotions and cause us to doubt what God says.
There are many sayings in our culture that are not based on the Word of truth like “If it feels good, do it!” If you have tried that you know it can get you into a lot of trouble. Or what about “Follow your heart!” Sounds nice but our feelings and desires are not always the best guide for what we should do, and often it can be the opposite. Or how about the one that may be the most misquoted, “Money is the root of all evil.” No, it is not wrong to have wealth but is the love of money that can come before the Lord.
Let us live our lives based on the Word of God, not our feelings or our culture, and be done with partial truth.
Challenge for today: Receive God’s truth for your life and reject what doesn’t agree with His Word.
Blessings on your day and prayers and love, Judy
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