Dear Ones,
Happy weekend! Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day and hope for another today. We are going to leave this morning for a
funeral in Walker of a good friend we have known for many years. So many funerals lately but peace knowing they are with
the Lord now.
Devotions from Judy’s heart
The Lord desires our total trust in Him, and that we might abandon ourselves to Him as we walk out our daily life. I am reading a book by Ruth Burrows and tried to let her words settle in me, “Forget yourself once and for all in total trust in God, who will enable you to respond to His love in His way and His time.” Of course, the way He works is not always what we expect or would choose, but it is always best. In a nutshell, Burrows message is: Jesus is everything, Jesus is first and last, and Christ crucified, the wisdom and the power of God. What if each of us never said no to God? What would our lives be like?

We may think we don’t need God and many live as if God didn’t exist, but we are helpless apart from Him. We are prisoners of our own limitations. But even our suffering has meaning when we know the Lord, and He can produce good from it. One friend wrote recently:

“So many times in my life have I seen God work for me when I felt everything was against me and going in the wrong direction. Back in 1998, my business partner put me out of out business. I lost everything, and that led me to go to school to become a pastor (seemed terrible at the time) and now 28 years later, my life since the losses has been so unbelievably wonderful, certainly not the plan I would have chosen, but so much better than before. Another time I was asked to leave a church and that was a real blow, but now like only He could do, I am back at that same church and am teaching an adult discipleship class every week and have become an Elder!  I took the back seat and He elevates me to the best beyond what I could ever ask or imagine! THANK YOU JESUS!!”

We all need to wake up and know that there is no limit to what God can do if we trust Him fully. Our hope and confidence must be in the Lord alone, and may our heart trust Him more each day.

Challenge for today: Meditate on Isaiah 12:2, “Behold, God is my salvation: I will trust and not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation.”
Blessings on your weekend and prayers and love, Judy