This was good. Thanks for sharing Carol.

Vicki

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From: "carol pearson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 11:06 AM
Subject: THE DAILY READING I MENTIONED


> 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!
> Dwight
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