BEING
WITH THE HEAVENLY FATHER -
DEVOTIONS
FOR LAMBS.
No. 51
From Wendy Howard [Editor of Despatch magazine],
Sunshine Coast, Qld, Australia.
Access Online http://www.despatch.cth.com.au/Main/tabco_main
What had happened all
of a sudden?
The chair had one metal
leg which had come loose from the bottom.
My finger went between
the leg and the seat, and then I sat down.
WOW! the chair “bit”
off a big chunk of my finger.
You never know what is
going to happen next, do you.
Well, the nurse patched
me up and I now have to wait for the finger to heal.
It is a bit sore, but
the doctor said it would be OK.
I had kept my tetanus
protection up to date.
Life is filled with surprises,
good things can happen and bad ones.
We drove home past Steve
Irwin’s crocodile farm.
He has a huge sign outside
of himself wrestling with a giant crocodile.
Steve’s eyes followed
us as we drove past.
His eyes look at you
no matter where you are on the road.
That sign seems to be
a bit of a trick sign.
God sees everything in
your life and mine.
He knows and cares about
every little hurt and scare we have.
He was with me when the
chair chomped my pinky.
Nothing
is too small for God to be concerned about.
He will bring healing
to my finger.
But how can He care about
everyone on earth at the same time?
Because He is God and
God is All-knowing.
There is nothing at all
that He does not know.
If it was not so, he
would NOT be God.
“For
the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth,
to
shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward
him.”
(II Chronicles 16:9).
EXTRAS FOR TEENS AND BETWEENS
Who knows what today may bring? No one does but God. He is not limited by time or space, so He knows the future as He knows the past. God knows how many hairs there are on your head, and He also knows what will happen in your day. No, He does not stop every normal happening coming your way. You live on a fallen world, just as I do. It is a world of cause and effect. What do I mean? If you put your warm tongue on the ice in the fridge, it will stick. You cause something, so it has a natural effect. if you don’t look where you are going and walk in front of a truck, it will hit you. It is a heavy moving object. God has the ability of course to suspend ordinary events too. Jesus Christ walked on water because, although He was heavier than water, He did not sink. God can step into our lives and work miracles. But He does not always do this. He could have stopped the chair injuring my finger, but He did not. Mostly Christians are people who live ordinary lives in extra-ordinary ways . They suffer and die like others, but they live far above the circumstances in the victory that God alone can give
“Hast
thou not known?
hast
thou not heard,
that
the everlasting God, the Lord,
the
Creator of the ends of the earth,
fainteth
not, neither is weary?
there
is no searching of his understanding.
He
giveth power to the faint (those who are failing and afraid);
and
to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
Even
the youths shall faint (fail and give up) and be weary,
and
the young men shall utterly fall.
But
they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength;
they
shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary;
and
they shall walk, and not faint.”
(Isaiah 40 28-31).
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