Corona Devo 3060

Our daughter gets on movie-kicks sometimes, and she will watch the same movie over and over for weeks.  It might be for twenty minutes here or an hour there, but when she is in a specific movie-routine, that show can be found playing on our TV whenever she has a few minutes to spare.  I think it is her way of relaxing to something comforting and familiar.

This week her movie is The Sound of Music, and it is comforting and familiar to me, too.  As a child, we enjoyed it once a year on TV as a family, and I fell in love with the music and beautiful story that fills it.  

We even performed the play in high school, and although usually a townsperson, for The Sound of Music I got to don a nun's habit for a few of the convent numbers.  

And when I studied abroad for a college semester in Australia, I watched The Sound of Music movie with the eight women that I roomed with, and although we came from eight different nations and languages, we each knew the words and music to The Sound of Music by heart.  There is just something comforting and familiar to it.

For any or all of these reasons, I am drawn and enticed by The Sound of Music.  My daughter has had it playing three different days on the TV just this week, and I can't help but to sit down and watch every time.  It's familiar and comforting every time.


What else is comforting, and familiar, and enticing, and excellent every time for us?  
What (Who!) goes above and beyond catchy tunes and a romantic and virtuous story?  

"The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.”  ~Isaiah 40:8

Our Heavenly Father has given us His Word (the Bible), which is His love story that He has written for us.  Year after year, time after time, in every language and tongue, and forever: Our Lord loves us and comforts us and is familiar to us through His Word and His presence. 

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, (4) who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.  ~II Corinthians 1:3-4

We can sit down with God and be ourselves.  We can lay-it-all-down before Him and that's what He desires of us: Our hearts.  

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, 
and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”  ~Matthew 11:28-30
 
God's Word is a treasure-trove of truth, wisdom, direction and peace, but it can be intimidating at times too.  But we do not have to swallow-it-whole.  Indeed, we cannot.  
Tiny doses are permissible and we can read the Bible when we have a few minutes to spare, or it might be for twenty minutes here or an hour there.  But in spending time with God and His Word, it becomes comforting and familiar to us.  He becomes comforting and familiar to us.

Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.  (2) I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”  ~Psalm 91:1-2

Life can be hard.  Lonely.  Unknown.  Unfulfilling.  
But God-in-our-life brings the opposite of each of those things. 

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.  ~Isaiah 41:10

We know Him: our Lord.  He is over all things and He comforts us wherever we are (physically/spiritually/emotionally) at today.  Sense God's nearness and His authority today.

“I, even I, am he who comforts you.   
Who are you that you fear mere mortals, human beings who are but grass, (13) that you forget the Lord your Maker, who stretches out the heavens and who lays the foundations of the earth...  ~Isaiah 51:12-13

The covering that God places over His children is real.  We can find familiarity and comfort in the God that made us...
In the God that loves us beyond measure... 
In the God that has plans for our good and not to harm us (Jeremiah 29:11)...

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.  ~Psalm 23:6

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For any or all of these reasons, may we be drawn to our God and enticed by The Bible, His holy Word.  May we sit down with Him today and may God and His Word be familiar and comforting to us every time.

“There is no one like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, and in His excellency on the clouds. 

(27) The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms; 
He will thrust out the enemy from before you, and will say, ‘Destroy!’ 

(28) Then Israel shall dwell in safety, the fountain of Jacob alone, in a land of grain and new wine; His heavens shall also drop dew. 

(29) Happy are you, O Israel!  Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, the shield of your help and the sword of your majesty!  

Your enemies shall submit to you, and you shall tread down their high places.”  ~Deuteronomy 33:26-29

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