Boy, was I off yesterday! We hit 100 degrees in our garden and it was
still 81 degrees at 2230. Not what we
wanted to see, however, the forecast is for cooler days – which should also
create cooler nights!
We will start working up pears
this afternoon, while it may be warm now, with plenty of fresh fruit; winter –
she is a coming - and those home canned fruits are a touch of fall and a looking
forward of the spring to come.
We think that forbidding the
preaching of Christ by our government is a ‘new thing;’ yet I was reading the
following last night:
Abraham Lincoln was
“accompanying Mrs. Pomeroy, military nurse, to her hospital, the President
discovered that the authorities of the house had forbidden praying to the
patients, or even reading the Bible to them, as it was denominational. He promptly removed the restriction, and
furthered the visiting missionaries in holding prayer-meetings, read the
Scriptures to ‘his boys in blue,’ and pray with them as much as they
pleased.
‘If there was more praying,’ he
said, ‘and less swearing, it would be far better for our country.’” The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious
Collection of the Best Stories by Henry Llewellyn Williams
Even MORE appropriate in America
today.
Psalm
63:1 O God, thou art my God; early will I
seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and
thirsty land, where no water is;
What an appropriate verse as we
look at the many fires and droughts occurring in America and other countries
right now. Even though other parts of
the country are experiencing higher than normal amounts of moisture.
When we look at our crops, our
normally green forests and plains, we realize the importance of water – without
it we cannot exist.
Our souls can also become
thirsty for God’s precious pouring out of His life giving love, without it our
soul cannot exist. And this land, this
nation, is drier, by far, in our spiritual life than we are in our natural life
– as dry as those areas in our country are, our souls are even drier.
We need the soothing out pouring
of God’s Holy Spirit to stir up the waters and quench the burning in our
souls.
Christ is the source of that
nourishment and He freely gives it.
We need to share His love and
His holy water. Those of us that partake
of that water will never thirst and we need to let others know of His Grace.
John 4:6-15 Now Jacob's well was
there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well:
and it was about the sixth hour.
7 There cometh a woman of
Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to
drink.
8 (For his disciples were
gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
9 Then saith the woman of
Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am
a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the
Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said
unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee,
Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee
living water.
11 The woman saith unto
him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then
hast thou that living water?
12 Art thou greater than
our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his
children, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered and said
unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst
again:
14 But whosoever drinketh
of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I
shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting
life.
15 The woman saith unto
him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to
draw.
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the
well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his
cattle?
Yes, He is, and may we ever
thank and praise Him for it.
Later, Art :-)
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