"Who's on first?" sounds like I'm referring back to an old comedy skit or talking about an Astro's game. I'm not. One of the devotionals I read this morning reminded me how important it is to go to the Bible first when we are dealing with a situation.....with any situation. I think, in the past, it has always been my tendency to try to handle everything myself. I am a "do it myself" type of person and that can be good and can be not so good. In the past, the Bible has been a last resort and not the first resort. How much I've learned on this journey. I know there is always an answer in the Bible. Whether it's the answer I want might be another thing, but there is an answer there. Whether the Bible is the first resort or the last resort, the answer remains the same so why not just go directly to the source first. Yay. Lesson learned.
I spent a three day weekend on the road with my precious daughter and son-in-law to go to a wedding in Arkansas. It was a great time as we visited with my neice, her husband and her children, one of which will be going on a mission trip this summer to Nicaragua. It's so wonderful to sit down at a table in a restaurant and know that everyone at the table with you loves the Lord as you do. No talk of cancer or chemo. As a matter of fact, I'm not sure the "c" word ever even came up the entire trip. What a relief. I am just so blessed.
On Saturday, my son-in-law and I were talking about the current issue with North Korea and South Korea. I began to wonder about religion in those two countries and opened google to search out what I could find. South Korea has a large Christian following. In North Korea, the political leader is God and the citizens are taught that they have a physical life and a political life and at the end of the physical life, the political life continues. Anyone following a religion that worships anyone or anything other than the leader may be and is often executed publicly and in some truly gruesome ways.
I am so grateful to be able to journal here most days and express my love for God and to share it with others. It's hard to imagine a situation where my life might be threatened for doing that. It is hard to imagine in this day and age that Christians are still being persecuted and murdered as they were as far back as the first century for simply believing in God. We think civilization has come so far since the days of Jesus and His apostles. In reality, in many ways, it has not. How sad.
Precious Lord, Jehovah Rapha,
You are the God who heals. We ask today that as You heal bodies fighting the effects of the enemy, cancer, that You also reach out and heal the hearts and souls of mankind. Help us, Lord, to do whatever it is that we can to help others fighting enemies that are so terrible that we can't even imagine the horrors they are dealing with every day. We know that cancer isn't the only enemy.
Teach us, Father, to turn to You first in every situation. Help us to grow in the knowledge of Your word so that the answer that we are searching for is always right at hand.
Thank You, Lord, for healing us, for teaching us, for loving us. We love You too.
In the name of Jesus Christ, the one true Messiah.
Amen
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