JULY 26, 2017

“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.” 
― C.S. Lewis

PSALM 44-49

1God is our refuge and strength,

an ever-present help in trouble.

2Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way

and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,

3though its waters roar and foam

and the mountains quake with their surging.^c(46:1-3)

ACTS 25-26

“ ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the Lord replied. 16‘Now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen and will see of me. 17I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them 18to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

19“So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the vision from heaven. 20First to those in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I preached that they should repent and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds. (26:15-20)

JOURNAL 

Today is a gift. There were people who this day never came, yesterday was their very last. There are people whom this day will be the last and there are people who this day will mark their entrance into this world and their journey of life will begin. Most often I don't think of how fragile and precious life truly is. Most often I operate as if the days, months and years of the future are guaranteed. Yet there is no such guarantee.

Father, I desire to live this day fully honoring your gift of life. I am so grateful for the gift and I want to honor it by giving the best of me in service of you. Thank you for all the days I have had up till now. Thank you for protecting me and giving me talents and family and community. I am so blessed! 

 6And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.

2 JOHN 1:6