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FRIDAY, August 13 (Jeremy Taylor)
Psalm 107:1-32. Let all those whom the Lord has redeemed proclaim that he redeemed them from the hand of the foe.
Several mornings in a row I woke up with a headache. My job was very distasteful then. Conversation and adapting myself to people seemed impossible. I would have given anything to be able to avoid living those days.
Then it dawned on me that if my doings had no significance, God’s had. He was trying to make the world a better place that day. He was trying to get people to live together in friendship. If I could take some part in his work, then my life would be worthwhile. It might be difficult to meet people in Christ’s spirit of friendship and to do the details of my work carefully when my head felt as though an engine were throbbing inside it. But all that was of small importance if by that effort I could fit into God’s great task and be an agent through whom some of his love could flow to people.
My perspective changed. I began to see not my difficulties, but the onward march of God’s purpose. In that I could exult with the psalmist, “They cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.” (1947)
PRAY for the Diocese of Fianarantsoa (Indian Ocean)
Ps 102 * 107:1-32; Judges 14:20—15:20; Acts 7:17-29; John 4:43-54
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