by David Scott Robertson
“That’ll be $3.56, please, sir,” the Wal-Mart checkout clerk said.
Immediately my mind quotes:
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart
And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge him,
And he will make your paths straight” (Proverbs 3:5-6).
The license plate on the car ahead of me reads – QRM 356.
Instantly my mind quotes:
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart
And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge him,
And he will make your paths straight” (Proverbs 3:5-6).
I happen to glance down at my digital watch – it reads- 3:56PM.
Without fail and almost without thinking,
My mind immediately quotes:
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart
And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge him,
And he will make your paths straight” (Proverbs 3:5-6).
I cannot tell you how many different times
And and the multitude of different ways,
That these three numbers: 3-5-6,
In that exact order,
Have suddenly been brought to my attention by the Holy Spirit.
Has the Lord ever “personalized” a Bible verse for you?
That is to say,
Has He made a verse or passage of scripture
Become so extra special,
So meaningful,
So near and dear to your heart
That perhaps you think of it as one of your “life verses?”
You start collecting bookmarks, pictures and plaques,
Anything that you can get your hands on
That has the verse inscribed on it.
You write it on a sticky note and post it on your bathroom mirror.
You make it your computer screen saver marquis.
You write it on a 3x5 card and carry it in your pocket or purse
And basically do all sorts of innovative and weird things
To keep the Life Verse in front of your face
In order to engrave it on the tablet of your heart.
This is precisely what happened to me with Proverbs 3:5-6.
I like to paraphrase this verse and pray it back to the Lord like this:
“I trust You, Lord,
With all my heart,
And today I resist the temptation to try and figure everything out.
In all my ways, Father,
I acknowledge You,
Trusting You to direct my paths.”
Remember, you always pray God’s will when you pray God’s word.
Got a similar verse in mind?
Ask the Lord to open your eyes
To begin to see with renewed vision
All the many, many reminders
Of your Life Verse
That surrounds you daily.
By the way,
The next time you see 316
Remember…
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).
DSR
1/26/01
Sunday, January 14, 2001
How to Get and Keep a Word From the Lord
by David Scott Robertson
Who wouldn’t want to hear the audible voice of God?
Who wouldn’t want the Lord Himself
To visit them and have a conversation?
Most of us would even settle for an angel
To visibly manifest in our presence
And give us a message from the Lord.
But it doesn’t always works that way.
Truth be told,
It hardly ever happens that way for me.
OK, it has never happened that way for me!
Notwithstanding,
The sovereign Lord has elected to communicate
With various people
At various times
For a variety of reasons
In just the way I’ve described.
But today I was thinking about a general rule of thumb for
Getting and keeping a word from the Lord.
Perhaps these simple steps will help you out someday:
Step #1: SHOW UP.
You’ve got to show up to a place where God is speaking.
Of course I know He’s everywhere.
But there seem to be certain circumstances where He seems tospeak often.
The prayer meeting.
The corporate assembly of the local church.
The altar or ministry time following a pastor preaching asermon.
(The greatest sermon ever preached is useless to the one that is not there to hear it.)
A prophetic conference.
Spiritual gifts begin to stir up
Where two or three are gathered together in His name.
The private prayer closet is where prayer and personal Bible study happens
And is a superb environment to make part of your daily constitution.
These are all places
Where the atmosphere is right
And conditions are excellent
To hear the word of the Lord.
As we quiet our souls,
In the stillness we can often sense God’s presence easier.
So, we have to SHOW UP to the spot of blessing.
Step #2: WE MUST LISTEN.
He who has ears let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the church.
It is possible to hear but not listen.
We must prepare our hearts
To be able to receive the word of the Lord
Much like a farmer prepares the soil to
To receive the implanted seed to produce a crop.
As we are in church and participating in the worship time,
A psalm, hymn, or spiritual song might speak to us.
The Spirit of God may cause a passage of scripture to leap off the page of the Bible
Right into our hearts and pierce it like a flaming arrow.
God may have inspired the preacher
To say something under the anointing of the Holy Spirit
So potent and powerful and special and specific
That you know that out of the abundance of God’s heart the man’s mouth speaks.
The Sunday school teacher may have a nugget of truth
So instructive (or corrective) that it literally changes yourlife.
We must be sensitive to listen
To God’s Holy Spirit speaking,
Drawing us, wooing us, to Jesus Christ and
Leading, guiding, and directing us into all truth.
We must have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying
To the church in general and to us specifically
And to avoid the temptation to stumble
Over how or who God chooses to communicate His message.
Step #3: WE MUST EXPECT GOD TO SPEAK.
We must approach the throne of God with an expectant heart.
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him” (Hebrews 11:6).
This is where faith enters the equation.
God has given to each of us a measure of faith (Romans12:3).
However, it is up to each of us to exercise it!
Faith without works is dead (James 2:26).
Believing God is the easiest, hardest thing you’ll ever do.
A child can master it while a scholar struggles.
However it is arrived at, faith must result.
As we actively seek His face,
Humble ourselves in His presence,
Repent if necessary…
Whatever we need to do
We need to do
In order to get the soil of our hearts expectant and faith-filled
To get and keep the word of the Lord.
How do we increase our faith?
Easy!
“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17).
Get into the Word of the Lord and let the Word of the Lordget into you.
Reading God’s Book,
Our Holy Spirit Owner’s Manual,
Can help you quickly discern
Whether a word is genuine, authentic, and truly from the Lord or not.
All “words” and prophetic utterances
Must pass the litmus test of being checked against the scriptures in order to be valid.
So, SHOW UP to your spot of blessing,
Ready to LISTEN with an EXPECTANT heart.
Step #4: CAPTURE THE WORD.
Unless you come equipped with a photographic memory
You’d better be prepared to somehow remember
What God says to you when He speaks.
That’s precisely why many Christians keep a journal.
When God-inspired
Thoughts, promises, personalized scripture passages,prophecies, and experiences
Are fresh in their mind they write them down in their journal.
If a sermon impacted you in a tremendous way
Buy the audio tape.
Purchase the video.
Order the transcripts.
Grab a napkin and a crayon if that’s all you have
And record the word of the Lord
That you feel the Lord has spoken just for you.
Somehow, someway CAPTURE THE WORD
So you can proceed to the next step.
Step #5: MEDITATE ON THE WORD.
Once you have showed up, listened, by faith received and preserved the word from the Lord
Then later you can review it,
And go over it again and again and again.
You can pray about it,
Pray over it,
Declare it and share it (if the Lord gives you permission)with some trusted counselors.
You can (and should) ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to you
Practical ways that you can walk out the word.
What is my part?
What do I need to purge from my life in order for the wordto come to pass?
Is there anything I need to add to my life to facilitate theprophecy?
It is through CONTEMPLATIVE MEDITATION and prayer
(Combining these with fasting really helps!)
That enables God to help you to know what to do next.
Step # 6: KEEP BELIEVING.
Once you have assurance in your spirit
Then your soul (mind, will, and emotions) will eventually catchup.
If your spirit bears witness,
The Bible bears witness (be a good Berean and check it out!(Acts 17:11)
Your trusted counselors bear witness,
And most importantly God’s Spirit bears witness and removes any and all
Flags, checks, and warnings,
Then…GO FOR IT!
Begin believing!
Walk out your faith!
Put legs on your prayers.
Count the deed as done.
Speak the things that are not as though they are.
Practice praise.
Once you are settled on the thing,
Make it part of your normal, regular, usual routine to
Magnify the Lord for the fresh, new thing He is going to doin your life.
Tenaciously defend the word with a courageous “I don’t have to survive” attitude.
Adopt a “pit-bull” grip that refuses, simply refuses, to let go regardless of the nay Sayers.
Don’t compromise your faith.
Don’t lower the standard and give place to the devil.
Don’t allow the enemy (who was defeated at Calvary!) to enter your house,
Assault you (the violent, insolent burglar!)
Rob you (the lawbreaking thief!),
And steal your faith (which is precious to God!) and your joy (which is your strength!)
Don’t give up and allow satan to con you out of the
Word that the Lord has given you.
The enemy will stop at nothing to
Steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10) your word.
But defend it with you life.
Once the authenticity of your Lord’s voice has been
Tested, proven, and confirmed,
Just like that God-pleaser, Job, we can say
“Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him:
but I will maintain mine own ways before him” (Job 13:15).
Like the Apostle Paul, we can say,
“…Let God be true, and every man a liar. As it is written:"So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge” (Romans 3:4).
Like Abraham, we can get the word of the Lord and adopt this attitude:
“He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he wasable also to perform” (Rom 4:20-21).
In conclusion,
You must believe that God desires to converse with His children.
That’s why He gave us the Bible!
But He also knows we need some help in hearing him sometimes
And I believe that’s why
“It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to beprophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,
to prepare God's people for works of service, so that thebody of Christ may be built up
until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledgeof the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ” (Ephesians 4:11-13).
Determine to do the basics well of
Getting and keeping a word from the Lord:
SHOWUP.
LISTEN.
EXPECT GOD TO SPEAK.
CAPTURE THE WORD.
MEDITATE ON THE WORD.
KEEP BELIEVING.
“Then the LORD replied: "Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it.
For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay” (Habakkuk 2:2-3).
DSR
1/14/01
Who wouldn’t want to hear the audible voice of God?
Who wouldn’t want the Lord Himself
To visit them and have a conversation?
Most of us would even settle for an angel
To visibly manifest in our presence
And give us a message from the Lord.
But it doesn’t always works that way.
Truth be told,
It hardly ever happens that way for me.
OK, it has never happened that way for me!
Notwithstanding,
The sovereign Lord has elected to communicate
With various people
At various times
For a variety of reasons
In just the way I’ve described.
But today I was thinking about a general rule of thumb for
Getting and keeping a word from the Lord.
Perhaps these simple steps will help you out someday:
Step #1: SHOW UP.
You’ve got to show up to a place where God is speaking.
Of course I know He’s everywhere.
But there seem to be certain circumstances where He seems tospeak often.
The prayer meeting.
The corporate assembly of the local church.
The altar or ministry time following a pastor preaching asermon.
(The greatest sermon ever preached is useless to the one that is not there to hear it.)
A prophetic conference.
Spiritual gifts begin to stir up
Where two or three are gathered together in His name.
The private prayer closet is where prayer and personal Bible study happens
And is a superb environment to make part of your daily constitution.
These are all places
Where the atmosphere is right
And conditions are excellent
To hear the word of the Lord.
As we quiet our souls,
In the stillness we can often sense God’s presence easier.
So, we have to SHOW UP to the spot of blessing.
Step #2: WE MUST LISTEN.
He who has ears let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the church.
It is possible to hear but not listen.
We must prepare our hearts
To be able to receive the word of the Lord
Much like a farmer prepares the soil to
To receive the implanted seed to produce a crop.
As we are in church and participating in the worship time,
A psalm, hymn, or spiritual song might speak to us.
The Spirit of God may cause a passage of scripture to leap off the page of the Bible
Right into our hearts and pierce it like a flaming arrow.
God may have inspired the preacher
To say something under the anointing of the Holy Spirit
So potent and powerful and special and specific
That you know that out of the abundance of God’s heart the man’s mouth speaks.
The Sunday school teacher may have a nugget of truth
So instructive (or corrective) that it literally changes yourlife.
We must be sensitive to listen
To God’s Holy Spirit speaking,
Drawing us, wooing us, to Jesus Christ and
Leading, guiding, and directing us into all truth.
We must have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying
To the church in general and to us specifically
And to avoid the temptation to stumble
Over how or who God chooses to communicate His message.
Step #3: WE MUST EXPECT GOD TO SPEAK.
We must approach the throne of God with an expectant heart.
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him” (Hebrews 11:6).
This is where faith enters the equation.
God has given to each of us a measure of faith (Romans12:3).
However, it is up to each of us to exercise it!
Faith without works is dead (James 2:26).
Believing God is the easiest, hardest thing you’ll ever do.
A child can master it while a scholar struggles.
However it is arrived at, faith must result.
As we actively seek His face,
Humble ourselves in His presence,
Repent if necessary…
Whatever we need to do
We need to do
In order to get the soil of our hearts expectant and faith-filled
To get and keep the word of the Lord.
How do we increase our faith?
Easy!
“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17).
Get into the Word of the Lord and let the Word of the Lordget into you.
Reading God’s Book,
Our Holy Spirit Owner’s Manual,
Can help you quickly discern
Whether a word is genuine, authentic, and truly from the Lord or not.
All “words” and prophetic utterances
Must pass the litmus test of being checked against the scriptures in order to be valid.
So, SHOW UP to your spot of blessing,
Ready to LISTEN with an EXPECTANT heart.
Step #4: CAPTURE THE WORD.
Unless you come equipped with a photographic memory
You’d better be prepared to somehow remember
What God says to you when He speaks.
That’s precisely why many Christians keep a journal.
When God-inspired
Thoughts, promises, personalized scripture passages,prophecies, and experiences
Are fresh in their mind they write them down in their journal.
If a sermon impacted you in a tremendous way
Buy the audio tape.
Purchase the video.
Order the transcripts.
Grab a napkin and a crayon if that’s all you have
And record the word of the Lord
That you feel the Lord has spoken just for you.
Somehow, someway CAPTURE THE WORD
So you can proceed to the next step.
Step #5: MEDITATE ON THE WORD.
Once you have showed up, listened, by faith received and preserved the word from the Lord
Then later you can review it,
And go over it again and again and again.
You can pray about it,
Pray over it,
Declare it and share it (if the Lord gives you permission)with some trusted counselors.
You can (and should) ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to you
Practical ways that you can walk out the word.
What is my part?
What do I need to purge from my life in order for the wordto come to pass?
Is there anything I need to add to my life to facilitate theprophecy?
It is through CONTEMPLATIVE MEDITATION and prayer
(Combining these with fasting really helps!)
That enables God to help you to know what to do next.
Step # 6: KEEP BELIEVING.
Once you have assurance in your spirit
Then your soul (mind, will, and emotions) will eventually catchup.
If your spirit bears witness,
The Bible bears witness (be a good Berean and check it out!(Acts 17:11)
Your trusted counselors bear witness,
And most importantly God’s Spirit bears witness and removes any and all
Flags, checks, and warnings,
Then…GO FOR IT!
Begin believing!
Walk out your faith!
Put legs on your prayers.
Count the deed as done.
Speak the things that are not as though they are.
Practice praise.
Once you are settled on the thing,
Make it part of your normal, regular, usual routine to
Magnify the Lord for the fresh, new thing He is going to doin your life.
Tenaciously defend the word with a courageous “I don’t have to survive” attitude.
Adopt a “pit-bull” grip that refuses, simply refuses, to let go regardless of the nay Sayers.
Don’t compromise your faith.
Don’t lower the standard and give place to the devil.
Don’t allow the enemy (who was defeated at Calvary!) to enter your house,
Assault you (the violent, insolent burglar!)
Rob you (the lawbreaking thief!),
And steal your faith (which is precious to God!) and your joy (which is your strength!)
Don’t give up and allow satan to con you out of the
Word that the Lord has given you.
The enemy will stop at nothing to
Steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10) your word.
But defend it with you life.
Once the authenticity of your Lord’s voice has been
Tested, proven, and confirmed,
Just like that God-pleaser, Job, we can say
“Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him:
but I will maintain mine own ways before him” (Job 13:15).
Like the Apostle Paul, we can say,
“…Let God be true, and every man a liar. As it is written:"So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge” (Romans 3:4).
Like Abraham, we can get the word of the Lord and adopt this attitude:
“He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he wasable also to perform” (Rom 4:20-21).
In conclusion,
You must believe that God desires to converse with His children.
That’s why He gave us the Bible!
But He also knows we need some help in hearing him sometimes
And I believe that’s why
“It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to beprophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,
to prepare God's people for works of service, so that thebody of Christ may be built up
until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledgeof the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ” (Ephesians 4:11-13).
Determine to do the basics well of
Getting and keeping a word from the Lord:
SHOWUP.
LISTEN.
EXPECT GOD TO SPEAK.
CAPTURE THE WORD.
MEDITATE ON THE WORD.
KEEP BELIEVING.
“Then the LORD replied: "Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it.
For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay” (Habakkuk 2:2-3).
DSR
1/14/01
Monday, January 1, 2001
Thank You Lord for Another Day of Life
by David Scott Robertson
I don't bet.
But if I did
I'd bet that 100% of every one of you reading this (including me)
Are guilty of the exact same thing -
Taking important things and people for granted.
Who among us has not from time to time
Taken the obvious for granted?
The fact that our
Digestive system,
Endocrine system,
Respiratory system,
Circulatory system,
And immune system that make our bodies work properly
Day after day,
Year after year
Is a fact that not only escapes the conscious thought of nearly everybody
But rarely do words come out of our mouths of gratitude
Concerning these indispensable body systems.
That's just one example.
That doesn't even touch blessings like
Our spouses,
Our precious children (or grandchildren),
Our jobs and the ability to make money,
Our warm homes,
Transportation,
Sanitation,
Adequate food (and taste buds to enjoy it),
An imperfect government that prevents anarchy and chaos,
And the list could go on endlessly…
Who can truthfully say
"I have nothing for which I am thankful for?"
One anonymous third-world country citizen put it all in perspective for me
When he was quoted as saying,
"I complained that I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet."
What, then, should our response be to the staggering truth
That we are blessed and more often than not we take it for granted?
Guilt?
Condemnation?
Neither.
I think the answer,
At least for me,
Can be found in the title I have given this writing,
"Thank You, Lord, For Another Day of Life!"
You see,
The title is really a quote from a friend and former co-worker of mine.
In his B.C. (Before Christ) "pre-saved" days,
My friend was lost and undone without God or His Son.
One night,
My friend and co-worker changed identities.
That particular night he was transformed into a drunk driver.
As the statistics grimly report,
An absurd number of drunk drivers hurt themselves and/or others.
My friend was to become a statistic.
Alcohol robbed my friend of the ability to control himself or his vehicle safely,
And he crashed resulting in a broken neck.
Lying in the hospital
Precariously dangling
Somewhere between life and somewhere between death,
My friend met a Great Physician.
His name was Dr. Jesus Christ, M.D. (Master of Divinity).
Dr. Jesus ordered multiple injections of mercy mixed with grace
Into the decimated body (almost a corpse) of my friend.
While in this incapacitated state,
My friend clearly understood the Doctor's most grave concern,
Far more important than the minor issue of a broken neck…
The most life-threatening issue my friend was facing at that moment
Was the strong possibility of his spirit being expelled from his body into a Christ-less eternity.
My friend understood the severity of the dilemma he faced
And right then and there,
In a pool of his own blood
He accepted the Blood of Jesus Christ
As an atonement for his sins.
The spiritual blood transfusion had taken place
And my friend with the broken neck became spiritually whole.
In the months that followed,
My friend began to regain his physical strength progressively.
His "halo" neck support collar
Served as a conversation-starter and visual aid to his amazing testimony.
As I recall,
From that point on,
I never heard my friend and co-worker pray out loud
But that the first words that came out of his mouth when he began to pray was
"Thank You, Lord, For Another Day of Life!"
His heart overflowed with a recurring theme of gratitude
The sanctity of life was rediscovered.
His daily attitude became one of simple, pure, and heartfelt appreciation
Of the life of God in him and the gift of life through him.
The sobering thought of what could have been was a powerful motivator to live right.
And the screws that fastened the hardware to his head to support his mending neck
Were a reminder of the nails that held the body of his Lord and Savior upright on the cross.
The worst thing that had ever happened to my friend
Was ironically the best thing that had ever happened to my friend.
Out of tragedy God brought triumph.
A sinner had come home because of a thump on the head.
My friend went on to complete his neck therapy,
Return to work,
Eventually he went on to meet and marry a beautiful Christian woman
And currently is in part-time ministry for the Lord.
Now the devil's mad
Because he lost a lad
That he thought he had!
And that makes me glad!
"Lord, help me not to take my friend, or this day, for granted!" Amen.
DSR
1/1/01
I don't bet.
But if I did
I'd bet that 100% of every one of you reading this (including me)
Are guilty of the exact same thing -
Taking important things and people for granted.
Who among us has not from time to time
Taken the obvious for granted?
The fact that our
Digestive system,
Endocrine system,
Respiratory system,
Circulatory system,
And immune system that make our bodies work properly
Day after day,
Year after year
Is a fact that not only escapes the conscious thought of nearly everybody
But rarely do words come out of our mouths of gratitude
Concerning these indispensable body systems.
That's just one example.
That doesn't even touch blessings like
Our spouses,
Our precious children (or grandchildren),
Our jobs and the ability to make money,
Our warm homes,
Transportation,
Sanitation,
Adequate food (and taste buds to enjoy it),
An imperfect government that prevents anarchy and chaos,
And the list could go on endlessly…
Who can truthfully say
"I have nothing for which I am thankful for?"
One anonymous third-world country citizen put it all in perspective for me
When he was quoted as saying,
"I complained that I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet."
What, then, should our response be to the staggering truth
That we are blessed and more often than not we take it for granted?
Guilt?
Condemnation?
Neither.
I think the answer,
At least for me,
Can be found in the title I have given this writing,
"Thank You, Lord, For Another Day of Life!"
You see,
The title is really a quote from a friend and former co-worker of mine.
In his B.C. (Before Christ) "pre-saved" days,
My friend was lost and undone without God or His Son.
One night,
My friend and co-worker changed identities.
That particular night he was transformed into a drunk driver.
As the statistics grimly report,
An absurd number of drunk drivers hurt themselves and/or others.
My friend was to become a statistic.
Alcohol robbed my friend of the ability to control himself or his vehicle safely,
And he crashed resulting in a broken neck.
Lying in the hospital
Precariously dangling
Somewhere between life and somewhere between death,
My friend met a Great Physician.
His name was Dr. Jesus Christ, M.D. (Master of Divinity).
Dr. Jesus ordered multiple injections of mercy mixed with grace
Into the decimated body (almost a corpse) of my friend.
While in this incapacitated state,
My friend clearly understood the Doctor's most grave concern,
Far more important than the minor issue of a broken neck…
The most life-threatening issue my friend was facing at that moment
Was the strong possibility of his spirit being expelled from his body into a Christ-less eternity.
My friend understood the severity of the dilemma he faced
And right then and there,
In a pool of his own blood
He accepted the Blood of Jesus Christ
As an atonement for his sins.
The spiritual blood transfusion had taken place
And my friend with the broken neck became spiritually whole.
In the months that followed,
My friend began to regain his physical strength progressively.
His "halo" neck support collar
Served as a conversation-starter and visual aid to his amazing testimony.
As I recall,
From that point on,
I never heard my friend and co-worker pray out loud
But that the first words that came out of his mouth when he began to pray was
"Thank You, Lord, For Another Day of Life!"
His heart overflowed with a recurring theme of gratitude
The sanctity of life was rediscovered.
His daily attitude became one of simple, pure, and heartfelt appreciation
Of the life of God in him and the gift of life through him.
The sobering thought of what could have been was a powerful motivator to live right.
And the screws that fastened the hardware to his head to support his mending neck
Were a reminder of the nails that held the body of his Lord and Savior upright on the cross.
The worst thing that had ever happened to my friend
Was ironically the best thing that had ever happened to my friend.
Out of tragedy God brought triumph.
A sinner had come home because of a thump on the head.
My friend went on to complete his neck therapy,
Return to work,
Eventually he went on to meet and marry a beautiful Christian woman
And currently is in part-time ministry for the Lord.
Now the devil's mad
Because he lost a lad
That he thought he had!
And that makes me glad!
"Lord, help me not to take my friend, or this day, for granted!" Amen.
DSR
1/1/01
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