Daily Devotion for January 3, 2006

IN ALL THINGS

 

Psalm 33

 

When I read the verses of Psalm 33, and think back over this last year, especially the last 4 months and Hurricane Katrina, the words of this psalm seem so real. “Rejoice in the Lord…Sing to him a new song…Behold the eye of the Lord is on all the sons of man…he delivers their soul from death and keeps them alive in famine…he is our help and shield…Thy steadfast love be upon us, even as we hope in thee.”

 

Over the last 4 months, I have witnessed meals being served to our new friends from Katrina, I was given a gift I will carry with me forever. I met people who had lost everything they owned, and yet they found comfort in the faces of their children as they played on a church playground. I shared dinner with families who in the midst of death and destruction still had hope. God had delivered them from the rising waters of New Orleans. He had stood with them on the roof of their homes or the side of the road as they waited to be rescued. He was with them in line at the Red Cross and FEMA offices. He brought them to one of our churches for a hot meal or brought one of our hundreds of volunteers to them with food.

 

Because of them, we know that the Lord is watching over his children. Firsthand, we have experienced the steadfast love of the God we know intimately through the birth of his son, Jesus Christ. The baby is here, and we are the gifts God has given to others.  Allow yourself to be unwrapped this year so others can see the hope you have that passes all human understanding. 

 

Prayer
Use me Jesus this year as your gift to others, and through my life let others see the giver of the gifts, YOU.  Amen

 

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