April 20, 2009

/The heavenly Quest
He is....a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief

Many heartaches come to those who follow Me. Some are common to all men; others are the direct result of simply being a disciple of one who Himself was called "a Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief" (Isaiah 53:3) If you are obedient to Me, you will experience a similar kind of suffering, the suffering of spiritual sacrifice. It is not self-sacrifice, it is the heavenly quest for total abandonment to the will of God.
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Those thoughts don't really seem very encouraging do they?  Yet there is so much truth in them.  Jesus is our example, he suffered and experienced unending sorrow, and yet he knew the end result, that beyond the complete sacrifice, there would be victory.  I have been reading a lot about the Jewish people and about how they have been treated.  In two different books the authors have told the history of fighting that has gone on through out the history of the world.  What a mess, what hate.  So what we see happening at the present time is not really a surprise.  Where do we fit into all of thise?  We might seem rather insignificant in the light of everything.  Yet God is calling us to be faithful over the little part that we have in the worlds events.  What can you and I do this day to make it better for those in our lives?  and for our own life?  I am convinced that nothing can separate us from the love of God...the challenge is to desire that love and to seek it.

Father, we come to you for this day and this week.  Help our hearts to be open to what you desire to say to us, open to the plans that you have for us, and willing to be obedient to your voice.  In Jesus Name. Amen

Yesterday after church and Sunday School, we came home for our usual nap and then in the evening we went to the  home schoolers play at Devils lake.  We had lunch with Edna Simon afterwards.