December 28, 2007
As 2007 draws to a close, we are once again faced with the timeline of, as Tennessee Ernie Ford used to sing, “another day older and deeper in debt.” Many people are suffering this holiday season with loss of jobs and home foreclosures. But there are people around the world who are also suffering. In India today a nation mourns at the death of one of its great leaders. As I ponder the suffering and the violence that is becoming common place both at home and abroad a rational explanation seems evasive. But then I am reminded that God is sovereign and I trust him, absolutely, for my life, my family, my country and the world. So don’t fret, He’s got the whole world in his hands!
-Lyn Sahr
-Ps 42:1-4 NIV
As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When can I go and meet with God?
3 My tears have been my food day and night,
while men say to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”
4 These things I remember
as I pour out my soul:
how I used to go with the multitude,
leading the procession to the house of God,
with shouts of joy and thanksgiving
among the festive throng.
8 By day the LORD directs his love,
at night his song is with me–
a prayer to the God of my life.
11 Why are you downcast, O my soul?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Seeking God requires a person to look beyond themselves.
-Lyn Sahr
-Ps 69:32-33 NIV
The poor will see and be glad–
you who seek God, may your hearts live!
33 The LORD hears the needy
and does not despise his captive people.
