#41 Oct. 12, 2015
2015 Devotional. Our goal for these weekly devotionals is to grow in humility and to grow spiritually by memorizing selected passages, putting them into context, and by applying them to our daily living. These passages are taken from: “100 Verses Every Christian Needs to Know” by Freeman-Smith. All passages are from the NIV.
Psalm 30:5
“For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime;
weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning”.
This verse took on a new meaning for us today (Oct. 5). Three-year-old Hosea had been ill for a while and he responded very little to treatment. Sunday morning he was brought to us, he was very ill and we could do nothing for him. I and another teacher drove them to the hospital but before he could be treated God called him.
It reminds me of the verse we are memorizing this week. What makes this so difficult for his father and mother is that their immediate relatives are not believers. They follow Traditional African Religion. Hosea’s father was told to dump his wife, apparently there is no love lost between his family and hers. He married her anyway, it was a church wedding in the Lutheran church approved by God. When he wanted to come to school they told him go to school but not with that woman. If you take her whatever happens is yours, it is none of our concern. Now in his last term of the English course God calls home his only son. With all that has happened with his family what is he to think now? Is his family right? No, No! But we also ask the question “Why Lord? Why this little boy?” There is no human answer; it is beyond our understanding of God’s allowable will. The one thing we know is that he is with you and we will see him Again!
We can only pray for understanding, pray for comfort, pray that this couple will stay strong, she is expecting, may they be comforted. The other thing we do is turn to Your Word O God! We turn to v. 5. Truly God your anger is short, you called this couple to yourself. Even with this great loss may they see your everlasting favor! We know that in this very night you cry with them. O God may you return to them the rejoicing that comes in the morning after a very long and dark night. May you return them to us at the school! Amen.
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