Posts from July 9, 2017

Waiting

Waiting The other day, the devotional from ‘Our Daily Bread’ was titled ‘Going First’ and it spoke of how God loved us FIRST.  About how we didn’t have to do anything, he just loved us! It was a very good devotional, and it got me to thinking.  About how God did love us first, about how He loved me first, and then He waited for me to return that love. And He waited . . . And He waited .…

A Joyful Heart

A Joyful Heart From Our Daily Bread – July 9, 2017 Read: 2 Chronicles 7:1–10 Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. —Psalm 100:1 My granddaughter’s favorite tune is one of John Philip Sousa’s marches. Sousa, known as “The March King,” was a US composer in the late nineteenth century. Moriah isn’t in a marching band; she’s only twenty months old. She just loves the tune and can even hum a few notes. She associates it with joyful times. When our…