Wednesday May 11

Good morning, how are you?  
I sometimes feel life is a roller coaster, with so many ups and downs, twists and turns.  For many, more ups and downs and turns means more fun.  Well, then I sure am having a fun life!  How about you?
What gets me through is that I believe and hold fast to God's love and His promises.  Without them, I doubt that I could go on.  They are the safety harness, the locking safety shoulder bars that hold me in even in the most violent and demanding turns and changes.  
My God is an Awesome God.  He loves and cares for me and you.  


Consider today's meditation:

May 11

Once to Every Man and Nation
"Choose you this day whom you will serve!" (Joshua 24:15).


Sooner or later a man must make up his mind what he will do with his life. This is equally true of a woman as well. The poorest among us are those souls who pass though life serving only themselves — loving things and using people. There is a much better alternative. We can choose to serve the Lord — loving people and using things.
This choice is not only right, it is courageous; especially in a day when "doing the right thing" is not always celebrated. 
One of my favorite old hymns, Once to Every Man and Nation (written in 1845 by James R. Lowell) says it best
"Once to every man and Nation comes the moment to decide 
in the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.
Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight.
And that choice goes by forever between that darkness and that light.
Then to side with Truth is noble, when we share Her wretched crust;
ere Her cause bring fame and fortune, and 'tis prosperous to be just.
Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside
until the multitude make virtue of a Faith they had denied.
Though the cause of evil prosper, yet the truth alone is strong;
Though her portion be the scaffold, and upon the throne be wrong;
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own."
Joshua stood before his countrymen and called them to the great moment of Choice. "Choose you this day whom you will serve," he said — and even now so says to us. The question, therefore, is will you serve yourself, or will you serve the Lord.
May Joshua's confession become your very own, "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!"


Have a blessed day in the Lord.