A Nugget from New Life Network
Scripture for the Day (April 26, 2016)
For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, (Matthew 25:35)
Forgive me!!! I am late with the devotional this morning. We are on the road driving home from Dallas TX and we stopped in Memphis TN to visit with our third son, our daughter-in-law, and their four children. It has been over a year since we have seen them in person so we had a lot to catch up with last night.
This particular son (Danny) is not our blood son. We took him into our family when he was 12 years old after a major tragedy in his birth home when his mother was killed in a car wreck. As I reflect back on the day we decided to take this boy into our home we could have very easily said no. We could have over thought the situation in numerous ways. We already have two sons! We can’t afford it! There are going to be too many challenges with his blood family! And on and on the excuses could have gone.
Thank the Lord we did not bow to all those excuses. When we arrived at our son’s home last night Danny and his three sons unloaded our luggage for us and took it to Danny and Kari’s master bedroom that they surrendered to us for the night. I am sitting in a parlor in that bedroom as I write this devotional and I am so proud of Danny and Kari and their family. You see, I know where he came from and he has grown up to be a fine man and fine father of four great children. I have to give Kari a lot of credit too because she is a strong woman of God.
I guess the main thing I want to share with you this morning is to not overthink a situation. God will put things in your path that seem impossible but nothing is impossible with God. God will put situations in your path where you know what’s the right thing to do but your mind will go wild with negative possibilities. You just have to have enough trust in God to go ahead and do the right thing.
Danny and Kari both love the Lord and over their bed is a huge wooden bannner that reads, “I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine” (Song of Solomon 6:3). Now, I realize that is referring to the relationship between a man and a woman but we also have to remember that we are also our brother’s keeper. If God puts someone in your path to minister to, don’t shrink back. Don’t think someone else is more qualified and much more able to do this than you. God chose you!!
I am so thankful this day that we took Danny in when we did!
Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. (Galatians 6:2)
