A Well Watered Garden

Three days after Julius went home to the Lord, God spoke to me through Psalm 77. I was reading Julius' NLT version desperately trying to connect with Julius through his underlined verses. In the process of trying to connect with him, I found myself connecting with My Lord in greater intimacy. In those early days I could hear His gentle whisper to me. He promised to make a way where there was no way. He had taken the nation of Israel through the Red Sea and He was going to take me through this sea of grief and loss. Your road led through the sea,      your pathway through the mighty waters—      a pathway no one knew was there! Ps 77:19 I have been back since to see how God has fulfilled that promise to me. What are the mighty waters that He has enabled me to cross without being drowned? He has given me joy in the midst of suffering. To be honest I think the pain is more now than it was a year ago. I cannot glamorize this state of...

"His grace is sufficient" The Apostle Paul had a thorn in his flesh. It was given to him. A messenger of Satan. To harass him. To keep him from being too elated. He pleaded over and over and over again to the Lord to take it away...2 Corinthians 12:1-10 But God's answer to him was:  “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Cor 12:9-10. I have had a year and half to think about this verse.  In an interesting article by John Piper "Power in Weakness" he explores the meaning of the word weakness in this verse. Insults, hardships, persecutions and calamities." These are circumstances and situations and experiences and wounds that make us look weak: things we wo...