Spiritual Thoughts

Friday Tale: A Somebody with God H ow many times have we had to reach the end of our own resources before we remembered to trust in God, the one steadfast resource of our lives? We're all in need of a spiritual exodus day by day. When our faith causes difficulties, our first response is to fall back on our familiar resources, people, things, self and only when these do not help can we truly lean only upon God for our needs. Dwight Moody once said that Moses spent forty years in the king's palace thinking that he was somebody; then he lived forty years in the wilderness finding out that without God he was a nobody; finally, he spent forty more years discovering how a nobody with God can be a somebody. "And he was right. When Moses and the people found out they were nobodies without the resource of God, that's when the Exodus began." ~ Joel C. Gregory F or the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand...

T hough in a wilderness, a person is never alone. ~ Thomas Browne     ...a nd in the wilderness, where you have seen how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went.... ~ Deuteronomy 1:31

T he Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness . ~ Havelock Ellis    T hen He led His people like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain which His right hand had won. ~ Psalm 78:52, 54

T he Promised Land always lies    on the other side of a wilderness.   -Havelock Ellis And you shall remember the whole way that  The Lord your God has led you these forty years    in the wilderness, that He might humble you,      testing you to know what was in your heart,        whether you would keep His commandments or not. -Deuteronomy 8:3