Daily Devotion Thursday, June 19th - God Be With You On September 19, 1945, missionary Darlene Deibler was liberated from a Japanese Prison Camp. She was in bad shape, having been subjected to years of physical suffering and mental torture. As a 28-year-old widow, she was returning home without a single possession. All her mementos and private keepsakes were gone, her loved ones dead, and her body was debilitated by exhaustion, starvation, malaria, beriberi, and dysentery. As the boat carried her from her island prion, she prayed a bitter prayer: “Lord, I’ll never come to these islands again. They’ve robbed me of everything that was most dear to me.” Suddenly she heard voices, Indonesian voices ringing from the distance. There on the shore were those who had come to know the lord through her mission, raising their voices, singing: “God be with you till we meet again./ By his counsels guide, uphold you,/With His sheep securely fold you; / God be with you till we meet again.” Darlene later wrote, “This song released the waters of bitterness that had flooded my soul, and the hurt began to drain from me as my tears flowed in a steady stream. The healing had begun. I know then that some day, God only knew when, I would come back to these my people and my island home.” Look around you today, and ask God to open your eyes that He is with you no matter what.
Posted on: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 12:30:00 +0000
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