Kirby
While standing at the Massachusetts coast, I experienced the power of the raging seas. To quote Horatio Spafford, the author of the famous hymn “It Is Well With My Soul”, I watched the sea billows roll and the crashing waves - which no mere human could withstand. Only the massive rocks could withstand such immense power and remain unmoved. Indeed, of Him who spoke the universe into existence, “my God, how great thou art!”
SAY TO GOD: “HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME!”
I felt an intense sense of being energized while ministering to and visiting with cancer patients. As a cancer survivor myself, I felt the Spirit’s urging to try to bring relief, even if it was just a little, to those fellow patients in their suffering. We will never cure every illness or eliminate death. But God’s Gospel does call us to bring relief, even if it’s just for a short time.
SAY TO GOD: “MAY YOUR WILL BE DONE!”
While walking through the “valley of the shadow of death” in my cancer journey, God’s provision was so evident! Medical staff who attended to me. Brothers and sisters in the church who served and supported us. But most of all, God provided His deep abiding peace after we wrestled and pleaded with Him. We didn’t know if I would survive the disease. But we knew we couldn’t walk the path He called us to without His peace. When you ask for it, He will give it to you - and in a measure that you couldn’t even imagine!
SAY TO GOD: “GIVE US TODAY OUR DAILY BREAD!”
I grieve over our society’s misplaced values. While it can make me angry, it is more the weight of grief. Our American culture wants the freedom to live immorally with no consequences. Then it pays for it with the lives of unborn children. Humankind being created to live. But because of the blindness of sin, we know not what we do. But we have hope because we’ve seen how God works. He can save a “wretch like me” and bring us to experience what it means to be created in His image and created to live.
”SAY TO GOD: “DELIVER US FROM EVIL!”