It's a great site, by the way, with some good resources and, though
specifically geared to those with particular issues, is also very useful for
others.


--
Carol



----- Original Message -----
From: "Helen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 6:32 PM
Subject: Re: THE DAILY READING I MENTIONED


> Thanks, Carol!  That ministered to me!  It is an encouragement.
>
> Love,
> Helen
>
>
> At 06:06 PM 1/3/04 +0000, you wrote:
> >This morning, this is what I received.  Notice the bit about a line drawn
> >around us!  God really spoke to me!
> >
> >--
> >Carol
> >
> >
> >Then [Elijah] cried out to the LORD, "O LORD my God, have You brought
> >tragedy also upon this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to
die?"
> >
> >I want to focus in on one word in this verse: the word "also."
> >God's judgment had fallen upon a nation.  For three successive years,
> >famine left people starving and in desperate need.  Dying of hunger or of
> >disease was a commonplace fact of life.  I'm sure the survivors looked at
> >each other and asked, "Where will it end?" and "Are we all going to die?"
> >A widow's son gets sick and dies.  That won't even make the six o'clock
> >news.  Nobody is going to care.  Everybody has problems of their own.
> >But God cares.  Deep down Elijah knows that God cares -- that something
is
> >amiss here -- that he shouldn't take this blow lying down.
> >I would like to suggest to you that there is an invisible line around the
> >people of God.  There is a boundary that is not to be crossed.  Does that
> >mean that we are all exempt from trouble, that sickness and death will
> >never claim any of us?  No.  But it does mean that we are God's property
> >and he watches over what is His.
> >There is a line that cannot be crossed drawn around you.  I don't know
> >exactly where that line is and neither do you.  But God does.  And that
> >line has been drawn so that you and I won't become another "also,"
another
> >statistic in a meaningless sea of tragedies.  Jesus said, "Whoever lives
> >and believes in Me will never die." (John 11:26)  God's resiliant eternal
> >life has been planted in us, and all the forces of hell and all the
> >tragedies of this world cannot snuff it out.
> >
> >Be encouraged!
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