Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Acts 9:3 "Suddenly...Strength from the LORD" (June 27)
Paul looked into the face of Stephen as he drew his last breath and lay lifeless at Saul's feet. What was Saul thinking about? Any truth to what this Stephen guy just died for? Any truth in my life to what is dying around me? Saul is still breathing threats and murder WHEN suddenly, "a light from heaven shone around him." Acts 9:3 "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?" And the answer always gets me: "Who are you, Lord?" LORD??? Saul must have been thinking about God when Stephen was stoned, when followers were bound. Now, Saul really is thinking about God---3 days of silence, blindness, and no refreshment from food or drink. Saul was praying to our God for the first time in his life. And God sent a frightened Ananias to restore Saul's sight and deeply encourage him and strengthen Saul. What a turn of events. What hope in the midst of a no-win situation. I'm sure the Freedmen could not believe their eyes or ears. I am in such a no-win life situation but I am pensively aware that my God has won this Battle. I hurt. I struggle. I wrestle. I wonder. I trust. I depend. No solutions, just a Savior Who shows up like on that road to Damascus and saves me from myself. Suddenly, He shows up to turn a curved-in life right-side up and strengthen like never before.
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It is with tears streaming down, I write to you, Annette, to say that I am praying for the Jamison family and today's 11am Memorial Service honoring Angela and the life she lived well. Young and articulate and gifted and a lover, this girl will be missed inordinantly by her family. No words! May the God of all Comfort suddenly show up and strengthen! May you all be carried as you say a final goodbye to the little girl with tight braids who was dearly loved. I'm looking out my window up into the heavens as I write and I envision a God Who cares so deeply for you all, a God Who weeps. My Prayers and Love, Bev
ReplyDeleteSolomon discovers that life is empty....and it is empty and it's really not living, unless the Lord Jesus is at the center of your existence! Life has NO meaning without Him. The longer I walk with Him, the more He is turning me from myself to seeing what is outside of me. He is also drawing me more into Himself. He has a time for everything. He has the last day of our lives written down.He sees the beginning and the end and holding to Him is the only way I can get through each day.
ReplyDeleteThe doctor's office called yesterday and had read the MRI, she said it was not necessary for me to come in and see him. The compression is from an old injury and there does seem to be a protrusion of a disc in my lower back and that was probably what was causing the problem, Which by the way is so much better!! And I am to go to therapy for a few weeks and see if that will not take care of the problem I have been having, So, I am doing the happy dance as much as I can....that is such good news. Thank all of you fro praying.
Thank you so much, Bev, and each of you who prayed. Hard, hard days for my cousin's family. So very devastating to see a child in a coffin. You found the obituary my cousin's big brother wrote for this precious one. If any others of you would like to read it, here is the url.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dallasmorningnews/obituary.aspx?n=angela-michelle-jamison&pid=158218443&fhid=11533
Thank you for remembering who she was, Bev. Very touching to me.