Today's devotion, so very fitting for we who are mourning once again!
Our church family is reeling again with the blow
of another sudden loss of one of our family.
Cliff Martin was a friend to my husband, (and me)
both of them life-long truck drivers.
Yesterday morning, for reasons still unknown
Cliff's truck rolled over and he lost his life.
Our hearts are broken for his family
as we lift them to our loving Heavenly Father in prayer.
Will you pray too?
Ps.23:4
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: for thou art with me;
thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
James 4:13-15
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city,
spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”
14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow!
What is your life?
“If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”
(The above verses, since my sister Lucy's sudden death last Sept.
are imprinted on my heart with
every plan I make!!)
If the Lord wills, we will do this or that today. Amen
What peace this precept brings as we face life’s unknowns again
God gives and takes away; life’s day-to-day time’s fleeting nod
Before we go the way of ‘dust-to-dust-and-soul-to-God’
If the Lord wills, we will go here or there today. Amen
We cannot see beyond the very moment we are in
But He who knows our numbered days before one came to be
Unfurls the goodness of His grace for all humanity
To all who trust in Him, He satisfies faith’s deepest needs
The vastness of His mercy thought’s comprehension exceeds
He is with us; He comforts us as we pray once again
‘If the Lord wills, we will do this or that today. Amen’
© Janet Martin
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