Today's Meditation
Deuteronomy 8:1-3 The Lord said to Israel, “Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase, and enter the land the Lord promised to your ancestors. Remember how the Lord led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.”
One of the on-line devotionals I've been reading during this season of Lent is from St. Paul's Lutheran Church. I don't know where the church is located. I only know that the congregation is led by Pastor Brad. After hearing President Trump's message to the nation last night at the daily briefing, asking for all Americans to continue to Stay Home for another month because our wave of the coronavirus will possibly not peak for another 2 weeks, this morning's scripture reading from Pastor Brad struck me with a particular relevance for today.
I'm not one that assigns the result of natural disasters or when bad things happen to the sins of a particular people, but I am one that believes that there are always lessons to be learned when we face trials. One of the lessons I think we must learn from this is how arrogant we've become as a race - not just in one nation or another, but all of us together. We exist solely by the grace of God.
May this time in the wilderness teach us to be humble, to be more gracious with one another, and be more appreciative and thankful for all that we have.
Listen to this amazing singer, Sam Robson
It Is Well With My Soul
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