Dear Ones,
Happy Weekend! Hope you have time for R & R. Yesterday our son Kurt snapped his bicep while unloading his new Father’s Day 300-pound grill and will now need surgery. Please pray that he can get surgery soon. He usually works out every day and recovery time is 6 weeks which will seem forever for him.
Happy Weekend! Hope you have time for R & R. Yesterday our son Kurt snapped his bicep while unloading his new Father’s Day 300-pound grill and will now need surgery. Please pray that he can get surgery soon. He usually works out every day and recovery time is 6 weeks which will seem forever for him.
Devotions from Judy’s heart
Do we want to be shallow Christians or do we want to live deeply in the Lord? I read today from Eph. 1:3-4 that God has chosen us and wants us to be holy. Paul writes, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him.” When he says we should be holy it doesn’t mean we will do everything right, but it does mean a surrendering of our wills to Him and having our hearts transformed into a heart of love so we can live deeply in Him. We will find that as we do this and walk in obedience, we are given love and compassion for others as well.
Today it has become almost impossible to live on the fence: we have to choose either the kingdom of light or the kingdom of darkness as there is a vast difference between the two. Many are trying to find meaning in life as they have a spiritual hunger but don’t know where to find the answers to satisfy that hunger. Only Jesus will satisfy our heart’s longing and He wants a close relationship with us. Jesus promises us in John 14:21, “He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
We can’t earn a deep and transforming relationship with Him, for it is a gift of grace, but we can focus on things that will help us draw near. In fact, we are promised in Deut. 4:29 that when we seek the Lord we will find Him if we search with all our heart and soul. He calls us to a holy life, a deep life, a transforming life, and we exist for Him. We can seek Him in faith and in our prayers, following up with actions. Let us not hold back from seeking Him, and little by little we will be transformed into his likeness.
Challenge for today: Ask the Lord to work in you to will and to work for His good pleasure. (Phil. 2:13)
Blessings on your day and prayers and love, Judy
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