"For the Lord will judge His people, and He will have compassion on His servants." (Psalm 135:14)
Sometimes when I read the "greats" of Church History I feel like the native American who was making smoke signals in the American Southwest. All of a sudden he witnessed an atomic blast near Los Alamos. His response was, "Gee, I wish I'd said that."
If you read my devotionals regularly, you know of how much I appreciate the prayers of the Book of Psalms. I want to share with you an "atomic blast" version from Bonhoeffer of what I have said many times.
"The Heart-Cry of the Psalms
Psalms 77:1
Serious illness and severe
loneliness before God and men,
threat, persecution, imprisonment
and whatever conceivable peril
there is on earth are known by the Psalms.
([From] Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible)
The Psalms express the full spectrum of the human condition, including joy and despair, faith and doubt, exultation and despondency, and peace and turmoil. In the Psalms we can recognize ourselves, but we can also hear the writer's struggle of faith. This should encourage us in our own spiritual journey, for the Psalms do not provide easy answers and do not suggest that the walk of faith is smooth and simple. But they do point us to the God who journeys with us in all our circumstances.
Thought
To know that others have walked a
similar road may not make the
difficulties of the journey easier,
but it should give us hope."
......in Jesus' Name.
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When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
"Looking unto Jesus"
Hebrews 12:2
"Looking unto Jesus"
Hebrews 12:2
