I really needed to read this. Dealing with mom and dad the past few months has seemed like we were wandering in the wilderness. I am trusting that God knows the way forward. The Lord says, “I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” - Isaiah 43:19 (NRSV) Todays Devotional My wife and I were driving through a desolate area when our dirt road entered a shadowed mountain gorge, winding beside a stream. Above us towered enormous rock buttresses. Time and time again we seemed to face a dead end in the road. At the last moment, the single lane wound around a huge rock and continued before us. Because there was barely enough space to turn around, our fear was that the road would truly dead-end, leaving us stranded. Finally, after endless heart-stopping twists and turns, we entered a spacious valley with grazing sheep and cattle. We had passed through the heart of that dreaded mountain range. Sometimes life is like that road: we seem about to be trapped in a dead end, with no apparent way of escape. Our dead end may be financial, marital, or health-related. How wonderful to hear God say, “I am about to do a new thing: . . . I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” The way may be narrow and tough, but God makes a way. The Lord has done this for me over and over, and in the time of my worst fears, I trust God to do it again. Gerald McCann (Cape Town, South Africa) Thought for the Day: With God there is always a way forward. Prayer: Dear Lord, give us the faith to keep trusting you, even when the way ahead seems hopeless. Amen. Prayer Focus: Someone in a seemingly hopeless situation
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 11:17:10 +0000
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