Doch, Blessed.
Friday, June 9, 2023
Threatened By Smoke,
Yet My Days Are Wondrously and Remarkably
(and inexplicably)
Clear!
Yours?
Deuteronomy 23:5
Yet the Lord your God refused to heed Balaam; the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loved you.
2 Peter 3:15
and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation. So also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given to him,
Words of Grace For Today
Now it is not great when one’s enemies join together to give voice to and worse to effect a curse against one continuing to live in peace and even to continue to breathe at all.
God does not work magic to save us. Sometimes it may indeed seem that God barely works at all. Yet God does work and work grace and blessings for us.
Because God walks with us, we trust that any curse spoken or attempted against us will be turned into a blessing, just as God turned Balaam’s curse into a blessing. Thus living and breathing will continue to be wondrous for us.
Today also, each challenge is not our undoing, but cause for us to give thanks, for as many challenges as we face, God gives us the ability to overcome them.
So we live, content, giving God thanks for everything that provides life for us, most of all, God’s presence each day.