TODAY HOLDS BLESSINGS!

There are so many blessings with each new day; no doubt we also encounter some trials which teach us endurance, but it is the Joy of The Lord which strengthens us. So if you have lost your joy; RE-JOICE!

Determine to find the rainbow in each storm; if your husband leaves his socks by the bed, be thankful you have a husband. If your daughter writes on the walls, take time to thank God for her creativity and she is currently writing you’re your heart. Realize in a few years you will wish she were still your baby girl, crayons or not. If circumstances of yesterday have broken your heart, Thank God that it is no longer yesterday and as surely as the sun rises on each new day; today holds brand new possibilities for you. You can weep over what is lost and you can rejoice over what is yours now to find.

Years ago, I lost everything that was important to me; my wife, my children and most of my friends; all of my material possessions were gone and I was paying off debt that wasn’t mine. I dropped 75 pounds within weeks. I had a job making less money than I had ever made and more bills than I could possibly pay. I no longer had a home and my car was as close to death as I felt. I felt like curling-up into a big ball and dying.

It was then that I realized that I had nothing more to lose! Suddenly my spirit was filled with the realization that I was free to follow hard after God without hindrance; what more could it cost me?

I began to give beyond my means to give and I began to serve at every opportunity. I would drive to church with my gas tank on empty and walk out of church to find a twenty dollar bill in my coat pocket. I was free to live by faith and there wasn’t anything else the devil could take from me, except perhaps my life, but only if God would allow him and what would that matter? “TO BE ABSENT FROM THE BODY IS TO BE PRESENT WITH THE LORD!” Death held no threat to me. Most importantly, I began to rejoice. I began to see every minute blessing that God was giving me.

In time, like Job of old; my whole life had been restored better than I had ever known it before. I found love like I had never known, which continues to grow to this day. I had two more daughters and in time my first two came home to me as well and as God always does, He multiplied our joy of children with grandchildren which I have been able to enjoy. He has indeed restored to me all that the old worm tried to destroy and God has given me even more. And from the night I lay under a wagon on a fairgrounds realizing that I had nothing left to lose, God has allowed me to serve Him though ministry.

Out of the darkest nights comes the brightest promise of a brilliant new day ahead. Amen!