It's been warm outside for the past couple of days, but the evenings are still delightful on my little backyard terrace. Our "back yard" is totally shade after about 3 or 4, and because of that, I love to sit overlooking the Blue Ridge and read and meditate for an hour or so each evening....
I've been reading a wonderful work by Joni Erikson Tada for the past week....."Lessons Learned over a Lifetime". Her thoughts today will remain in my heart for years to come, I think.....
"And never, never underestimate the ability of our God to use the shakiest prayer of the weakest saint to move heaven and earth"
Do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord, a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 2 peter 3:8
"The Math of Heaven" "We all know the old adage that God looks at the last thousand years as only a couple of years gone by. But what abouth the other half of the verse? The part about seeing each day as a thousand years?
"If we really come to grips with the fact that God can pick up any twenty-four-hour day He chooses and give it an eternal impact of a thousand years, then each day of our lives becomes immeasurably important.... Each day God gives us precious hours to invest.....investments which will have eternal repercussions in our lives and in the lives of others....Your obedience counts for eternity. Your patience and longsuffering and endurance will resound with more glory to God than you can possibly appreciate right now. If you can hang in there and keep a godly response, then who can measure the impact? Who can put a value on how God will work through your prayers?"
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