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Reading:
Genesis 18:1-15

And not just too hard…also too old.

I’m “A Few Months Shy of Fifty” and frequently confronting the realization that my prime with its time and opportunities has vaporized.

Am I already finished?

Or might God’s mercy and grace still release opportunities from up His sleeve?

“Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son” (14).

Since that day, nothing has become harder for God.

Nothing!

Now that is a lack of change you can believe it!

[For therefore are ye come to your servant (Genesis 18:5)]
from Genesis 18:5

Reading:
2 Corinthians 1:1-11

Some of us don’t reveal much of our troubles, struggles, and despair.

Maybe we think that’s not spiritual and mature.

So we engage in a cover-up — masks, fronts, facades, public personas.

Maybe we think that is spiritual and mature.

Then we come across something written by someone we readily accept as spiritual and mature:

“For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life” (8).

What impressed me this morning about the Apostle Paul, though, was not just his openness.

Even though he exposed his feelings of despair and inadequacy, he didn’t keep his focus there.

He saw and accepted and pursued God and His purposes:

“But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead” (9).

[Helping together by prayer for us (2 Corinthians 1:11)]
from 2 Corinthians 1:11

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