Corona Devotionals

In the day of prosperity be joyful, b ut in the day of adversity consider:  Surely God has appointed the one   as  well as the other...   ~Ecclesiastes 7:14 Life is yin and yang.  Our days are comprised of  joy of prosperity  and also the difficulty of adversity .  One day we are up,  and one day we are down .  And on some wild and wonderful days: we experience both. In the yin and yang of things, students (including my kids!) are in the final days and weeks of the academic school year, and there is much stress surrounding and infused within the last stretches of tests, finals, projects, concerts, shows, speeches, and (let's face it): expectations. We may not be a student, but we needn't be to feel the pressure of life's stress bearing down on us.   The Lord is with the students who are grinding-out their faith and final projects, and our Lord God is with us , Brothers and Sisters in Christ.  Let's draw strength, fort...

I don't want to miss it!  But do not worry: no one will be able to miss it. ~~~ Sometimes we are too busy/distracted/sad/buoyant to "stop and smell the roses" in our lives.   It may be snowing or scorching-hot outdoors, but in concentration on other  things, sometimes we can move through the conditions and surroundings of life almost completely unaware of them. Much of life can be easily missed in the daily mundane of it. But, Brothers and Sisters in Christ-- we will notice when God is moving in the last days , and we will not miss when the lamb opens the sixth seal .  We will notice (and behold!) the sun ...it will turn black .   We will see the moon  become as red as blood. We will not miss the stars ...as they fall to the earth like figs  falling from a tree. And how could we not  notice when the sky is rolled up like a scroll ? And...geologist or not: we will document the day, (in the last days) when  all of the mountains ...

Ahhh, wow.  Have you ever stayed in a hotel room so posh that they had a fluffy, plush, white robe hanging in the closet for your comfort and care?   Ahhh, wow...we can just imagine the soft warm fluff on our skin.  Or maybe we are on a cruise ship, at a bed and breakfast, or even in the comfort of our own home: and a beautiful robe of value and class and softness hangs with the purpose of being hung over our shoulders and body---as a treat and reward. Ahhh, wow. ~~~ Do we ever feel as if we are standing alone  for the word of God ?  We have no robe over our shoulders today, and it is safe to admit that living for the Lord is difficult  and lonely at times. Many people do not want to hear  or see God's truth being lived out..and if we are seeking to live for the Lord... it's hard.   People can be hard to us.  People can hate God, and they can hate us.   But, please Friends, keep  being faithful in your  testimony...

We have a robin's nest on our front porch, and my husband and I delight to peek outside and watch the mama-robin as she cares for her unhatched. She has three brilliantly-blue eggs in her nest, and when I wake up in the morning and glance at her...she is sitting there on those eggs.   At mid-morning or mid-day, as I enter and exit our home--she is still-on-duty, protecting those eggs.   In the afternoon, if I peer outside: there she sits in her nest, guarding and warming those eggs.  If I glance out to our porch even at midnight, she is there, perched on her eggs.  That mama-robin literally cares for her eggs, (her unborn chicks)...night and day.    If our comings-and-goings get too  loud or close, then s he may fly away for a moment.  But never too far..and never for long.    Friends in Christ--our Lord/our God/our Heavenly Father  is never far off, and His heart is even more devoted and fierce for us than that mother rob...

Has God put something on our hearts and in our hearts? Then He will do it. May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.  ( 24)  The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.   ~I Thessalonians 5:23-24 ~~~  Does it (whatever our "it" is today) seem too big for us to handle? Remember that the battle is the Lord's , not ours.  (But we will have to make the decision to let Him  lead and fight it.)     And the victory  is the Lord's also...will we give Him the authority and reins to gain it?  "It" (... all of our "it's" in this life), are too big for us to handle on our own.  But when God  handles our feats, then...(often against all odds),  we have a testimony, Friends.  When we "let God", then we have our latest account of how God has proven Himself (again) i...

Psalm 100 (1)Shout for joy   to the   Lord , all the earth.  ( 2)  Worship the  Lord  with gladness;  come before him with joyful songs.  ( 3)  Know that the  Lord  is God.  I t is he who made us, and we are his; w e are his people, the sheep of his pasture. ( 4)  Enter his gates with thanksgiving a nd his courts with praise;  give thanks to him and praise his name.  ( 5)  For the  Lord  is good and his love endures forever;  his faithfulness continues through all generations.  ~Psalm 100:1-5  ~~~ Have we hugged our God today?   Psalm 100  invites us to enter-in joyfully to God's presence and to praise Him today.  Throughout the Psalm  are invitational words and phrases to schedule our day today in worship of our Lord. Shout, worship, come before, know, give thanks, praise His name... These words speak of speechlessness before ou...