If The Lord Wills...

Today's devotion, so very fitting for we who are mourning once again! Our church family is reeling again with the blowof another sudden loss of one of our family.Cliff Martin was a friend to my husband, (and me)both of them life-long truck drivers.Yesterday morning, for reasons still unknownCliff's truck rolled over and he lost his life.Our hearts are broken for his familyas we lift them to our loving Heavenly Father in prayer.Will you pray too? Ps.23:4Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,I will fear no evil: for thou art with me;thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. James 4:13-15Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.” You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.” (The above verses, since my sister Lucy's sudden death last Sept.are imprinted on my heart withevery plan I make!!) If the Lord wills, we will do this or that today. AmenWhat peace this precept brings as we face life’s unknowns againGod gives and takes away; life’s day-to-day time’s fleeting nodBefore we go the way of ‘dust-to-dust-and-soul-to-God’ If the Lord wills, we will go here or there today. AmenWe cannot see beyond the very moment we are inBut He who knows our numbered days before one came to beUnfurls the goodness of His grace for all humanity To all who trust in Him, He satisfies faith’s deepest needsThe vastness of His mercy thought’s comprehension exceedsHe is with us; He comforts us as we pray once again‘If the Lord wills, we will do this or that today. Amen’ © Janet Martin