“Let anyone with ears to hear listen!”
--Luke 14: 35b
“So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the word of Christ.”
--Romans 10: 17
“Whether they hear or refuse to hear (for they are a rebellious house), they shall know that there has been a prophet among them.”
--Ezekiel 2: 5
Murphy’s Law is an adage that broadly states, “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong!” and that was my day the day before I wrote this. You may have a day like I did. You will have! I can guarantee it…
I had planned to write, but my husband had a different agenda for my morning. From there it seemed downhill. After the 4th of July weekend, I also had piles of mail and dirty laundry to take care of and a lonely house to clean after my family left. My mood spiraled further downward as I remembered my dog, Sabrina, and grieved not only for her recent death, but for two friends in their sixties that died during the previous couple of weeks. It certainly didn’t help that I had just turned 63, myself, on the third of July. The final straw was when the mail came with an invoice for repairs done at a rental house with the amount far exceeding that which I had expected...
To read the rest of this chapter, you will now need to buy my book, Simple Faith, Mighty Faith, published by Cornhusker Press and released 7-3-2011. Go to my website, http://www.JerriHaussler.com for ordering details. Thank you!
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Thoughts to Ponder/Points for Discussion
- Recall the last time you had a “bad day.” How did God lead you out of that troubled time?
- Now that this devotional is finished, what will you do to continue learning and growing in your faith?
