Sunday's Coming

Good morning,

I pray this finds you well. We have had another busy but rewarding week here in Arizona. Thanks again for keeping us in your prayers. I did receive a couple of phone calls and emails this ... they sure encourage me to continue the work the Lord has led us to. You don't know what your calls and emails do for us.

Yesterday someone sent me an email on hunger with pictures of children so skinny you could see their bones. Then I came upon this devotional below. It brought home a tremendous message and got me thinking: How important is God's Word to us? We eat everyday. Do we read and study God's word every day? I preached Sunday and encouraged us to "go and tell" but to do that we need to be in God's Word first. Ask Him where and who to visit.

I pray this devotional touches you as it did me. My prayer is that God will use this today in our lives.

Have a great day, love you, pass it on,
Don

Hunger for the Word of God
“I rejoice at Thy Word.” Psalm 119:162
Job said, “I have esteemed the words of His mouth more than my necessary food” (Job 23:12).
When God’s Word is as important to you as your physical food, then you’re going to start to grow in your Christian life.
I wonder if one day the dust on our Bibles is not going to testify against us. The following poetic lines sober my heart: “These hath God married and no man shall part, dust on the Bible and drought on the heart.”
Oh, that we would hunger for the Word of God!
Fast from one meal today. Sense just a touch of the hunger our hearts are to have for the Word of God, and remember to pray for those who need the pure milk of His Word!

Heaven and Hell

A holy man was having a conversation with the Lord one day and said, 'Lord, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like.'

The Lord led the holy man to two doors.

He opened one of the doors and the holy man looked in. In the middle of the room was a large round table. In the middle of the table was a large pot of stew, which smelled delicious and made the holy man's mouth water.

The people sitting around the table were thin and sickly. They appeared to be famished.. They were holding spoons with very long handles that were strapped to their arms and each found it possible to reach into the pot of stew and take a spoonful. But because the handle was longer than their arms, they could not get the spoons back into their mouths.

The holy man shuddered at the sight of their misery and suffering.

The Lord said, 'You have seen Hell.'

They went to the next room and opened the door. It was exactly the same as the first one. There was the large round table with the large pot of stew which made the holy man's mouth water. The people were equipped with the same long-handled spoons, but here the people were well nourished and plump, laughing and talking. The holy man said, 'I don't understand.'

It is simple,' said the Lord.

'It requires but one skill. You see they have learned to feed each other, while the greedy think only of themselves.'