How has your week been? Did it go by quickly or not? Karen and I took time to relax and appreciate many of the blessings that the Lord has given us. We were glad to see some of our grandchildren in person last week and others on visual phone calls. Yesterday, we had the pleasure of visiting friends who had stayed with us last year when fire destroyed the house in which they were living. It was wonderful to see their new home and hear how the Lord is using them to bless others.
Please pray for Hans, who is in palliative care. He was an encouragement to us at various times and we were saddened to learn of the decline in his health.
In “Bless the Lord, O My Soul: 365 Devotions for Prayer and Worship” by Our Daily Bread Ministries, Henry Bosch writes:
“What do you do eighteen times a minute, 1,080 times an hour, and about 25,000 times a day, yet rarely notice? You breathe. If you are forty years old, you’ve already taken more than 365 million breaths of air. And each of those breaths was a measured gift of life from the hand of God!
Our lungs are among the most important parts of our body. They furnish our blood with oxygen, and they carry away carbon dioxide and water. A few moments without breathing, and we would lose consciousness. A minute or two longer without oxygen could prove fatal.
To whom are we indebted for the blessing of respiration? Job said that in the Lord’s hand is ‘the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind’ (Job 12:10). The Lord gives those 25,000 gifts per day so we can honor Him with the life they sustain.”
May we seek to serve God in all that we say and do, to the praise and glory of our wonderful Lord.
Scripture for the weekend: “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!” Psalm 150:6 (NKJV)
Thought for the weekend: “God wants to bless us and He wants us to be a blessing to others. The first step to being able to recognize God’s blessings in your life is understanding what His blessings truly are – inexhaustible, unfathomable, and immeasurable.” – Dr. David Jeremiah (from the January 2021 issue of “Turning Points”)
Steve