Got an e-mail just a few days ago. It shared some rather sad news. Three weeks ago my three friends from Florida and North Carolina spent 6 wonderful days with me. Great fellowship, laughs, stories from our teenage years, it was precious. Then the news came. One of my sweet friend's father, someone I knew well was very ill, admitted into hospice and passed into the Presence of the Lord.
The direction of the wind changed . . .
Another friend of mine, living life and enjoying the routine suddenly finds herself facing serious surgery and treatment for breast cancer.
The direction of the wind changed . . .
Another friend’s business is slowing down and the bills are piling up.
The direction of the wind changed . . .
Last Saturday we attended a funeral of a 32 year old woman, last living child of a dear friend.
The direction of the wind changed . . .
It is easy to trust, rest in our faith, when the sun is shining and the warm breezes blow. But what of the wind from the north? Do we start to doubt? Ask God why? Panic and fret because life is not going the way we planned?
The Sovereignty of God, the love of God, the hope we have in God must become secure and strong tethers as we live this life.
The winds will change, back and forth, warm and cold.
Satan’s strategy, when the direction of the wind changes, is to cause us to question and doubt .
Let’s stand firm together trusting our loving God who will not change
nor will the direction of the wind change around His throne!
Psalm 27
Psalm 91
Psalm 46
