August 16, 2018. 8:27pm. Today was our second day back at school; it was another long, yet good, day. I was tempted to blog first thing this morning, but I did not. I had an awesome moment and wanted to share, but I decided to wait…..
After I got to work and completed a few tasks, I read the daily devotion from “Jesus Always” by Sarah Young. The Bible verses for today are:
Psalm 29:11 “The Lord gives strength to his people; the Lord blesses his people with peace.”
Psalm 112:7 “They will have no fear of bad news; their hearts are steadfast, trusting in the Lord.”
Ephesians 5:8 – 10 “For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness,righteousness and truth) 10 and find out what pleases the Lord.“
Here is the devotion:
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As I read this, especially the part about bad news, it dawned on me that I just recently read something along the same lines. I had to stop for a moment and think about where I read it. I read some in Exodus last night, but I knew it wasn’t there. Then it dawned on me that yesterday evening, I read a Facebook post from a very dear Christian woman who I met in April at a women’s conference. This woman has been through many trials in her life, including eight years of sex trafficking and cancer numerous times. She recently learned that she has cancer again. These trials have not broken her faith in Christ; she is an amazing witness for Him. Here is her post:
Even though she did not specifically use the words “bad news,” I believe that her message goes hand-in-hand with today’s devotion. If you are a Christian, hopefully you will understand me when I say that this was a “Holy Spirit moment.” It never ceases to amaze me how God works in our lives…..how we can hear or read one thing one day, and then hear or read something along the same lines in another place! In my opinion, that is God affirming the message to us.
This afternoon I received an email notification that the State Fire Investigation Report had finally been uploaded to the online portal, which I mentioned in my previous post. I read over the report and printed it out to keep. I will not go into details here, but I will say that the report contains some shocking information and it only raises additional questions about the circumstances surrounding the fire. For whatever reason, the status of the report was changed from “Closed” to “Active” in July. I am not sure exactly what that means but I am trying to find out. Hopefully one day, I will find out what really happened the morning of the fire.
So…..overall, it was a good day. Long…..but good. No major mishaps, ha ha. I am extremely grateful that tomorrow is Friday! May God bless each and every one of you!
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