Let Me Tell You One Thing

Vs3. Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young-even Your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God. Vs4. Blessed are those who dwell in Your house; they will still be praising You. Selah. Vs5. Blessed is the man whose strength is in You, whose heart is set on pilgrimage. Vs6. As they pass through the Valley of Baca.   They make it a spring; the rain also covers it with pools. Even the birds try to find the altar of God to lay their young.   The holy presence, even wildlife evidently can sense it.   Those who seek the Lord as the one thing pressing on their agenda, those will still be praising.   Still praising, after what?   I would imagine, those who seek the Lord will still be praising Him after the storm because they praised Him through the storm.   On the other hand, those who do not praise in the storm are quite battered after the storm passes over.   They are beaten, defeated, disillusioned, and disguste

Psalm 84 Devotions in Psalms October 8, 2015 How lovely is your tabernacle, O Lord of hosts!   (Psalm 27:4 one thing I have desired of the Lord that I will seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple.) Vs2. My soul longs, yes even faints for the courts of the Lord, my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. (Psalm 42:1, 2 As the deer pants for the water brooks so pants my soul for You, O God.) One of the things that I think about is how dependent we are upon our desires to motivate us to do anything.   We cannot accomplish anything without a desire to do so.   When I read how this writer is penning how strong his desire is to be with the Lord, to behold His beauty and to want to be in the house of the Lord, and the related reference of the soul panting after the Lord, I think, now how does my desire line up with this passage? I begin by asking for a desire such as this da

October 6, 2015 I don't have too many moments of clarity.  I am usually chasing rabbits down a path to no where.  But ever so often, the bell will ring, the lights will come on, and the Hallelujah chorus will sing! Those are the moments when I stop, look into the face of God and say, " There really is a God!".  It is in those moments that the links connect, the dust bunnies leave, and the puzzle pieces actually fit! It can be about the smallest things, or it can be major decisions.  But Let Me Tell You One Thing, it is in those moments of clarity, that all darkness is illuminated, the questions are answered, and truth appears. How often do these times come?  Rarely. Sometimes it is a hit and miss attempt to know which direction to go with decisions in our life.  We try this way or that way, only to find it is not the way to go on a particular decision.  We often pay greatly for those times, reaping results from poor judgement and decisions. My husband, Clyde,