This morning, I've got a number of thoughts rattling around in my head that I'd love to have time to write about, but truthfully, I just don't have it in me to develop any of them more fully at the moment.
1. My devotional reading this morning was about faith and works, and it included Luke 6:46, "Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' but do not do what I say?" What a heart breaking question from Jesus to his disciples, to me. Faith demands obedience. I speak volumes about my faith and the object of my faith when I refuse to obey.
2. The scripture memory verse I'm working on right now is Psalm 119:7 from the NLT, "As I learn your righteous regulations, I will thank you by living as I should!" Again, true faith and obedience cannot be separated.
3. Jeremy Powell is having brain surgery this morning to remove an infectious mass. As I pray for him, my temptation is to simply pray that he be healed, but I keep remembering the night we gathered to pray before I left on a mission trip to China several years back. Jeremy stubbornly refused to pray for my safety, but boldly prayed that God be glorified in whatever way He saw best, and that I be granted the faith and grace and courage to stand up under any trial or opportunity to declare God's glory. So, today, I do pray for a successful surgery, for the doctors' steady hands, and for Jeremy and his family to have opportunity to exalt the Lord before a watching medical community.
4. Last night I listened as a woman who was widowed unexpectedly while she still had three kids at home then watched her teenage son battle cancer just a few years later talked about how she feels blessed to have opportunity serve and minister to women who haven't had lives as "easy" as ours (indicating all the women in the room, including me). I was truly in awe.
5. The quote on my calendar for April 11 says, "What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient." Elisabeth Elliot A response to that quote could take up several posts if I had the time.
That is all. For now.
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