This morning, just like I have been doing most mornings through this new year (which is not very new anymore), I read a devotion from Every Day with Jesus, Forty Years of Favorite Devotions, which was written and given to me as a gift from Greg Laurie. What I love about this devotional is that he wrote it like I was there having a very real conversation with him. Not that I do not love fancy words, but when I am starting my day I need a simple reminder of the reality of life and God, especially when it comes to the tough stuff. Down to earth conversations are important. Anyways, I wanted to share part of the devotion I read yesterday morning with you: "When He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints." (Revelations 5:8) There are times when life just doesn't seem fair. Things happen that don't make sense, and we wonder why God didn't answer our prayer. But He will answer your prayer - in His way, for His glory, in His time. When we are in heaven and are standing before God's throne, and when those gold bowls, full of prayers, are brought before us, we will realize that God heard every little prayer that we prayed. And I think we also will understand that His answer was far better than what we asked for in the moment. Not only does God keep our tears in a bottle (see Psalm 56:8), but He also keeps our prayers in a bowl. God never throws our prayers away. He stores them for us. ~Greg Laurie "Once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'"
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, pg. 13
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JOAN BETTS
3/22/2014 05:06:07 am
HI DEAR,
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Christiana Betts
3/25/2014 04:35:47 am
Thanks mom :)
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