Yeah,

It's good to know that He hedges us around and we don't know what these
limits are.  They certainly aren't for making any excuses not to choose Him
and His ways totally.


--
Carol



----- Original Message -----
From: "John Schwery" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: THE DAILY READING I MENTIONED


> For sure, similar to the hedge around Job.
>
> At 01:32 PM 1/3/04 -0500, you wrote:
> >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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> John
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