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…I am cut off.

I just read this a few minutes ago…and — Wow! — can I connect with it:

It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. —Lam. 3:26.

Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? —I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

Shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. —Wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee. —Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the Lord.

Let us not be weary in well doing: . . . in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. —Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

Psa. 77:9. –Psa.31:22. Luke 18:7,8. -Prov. 20:22. -Psa. 37:7.II Chr. 20:17. Gal. 6:9. -Jas. 5:7.

But how am I supposed to “make this work”?

How do I implement it in “real life”?

How do you?

Source: Daily Light on the Daily Path | October 30, Morning

Sunday evening at Hopewell Mennonite Church was “impromptu” for the first hour of the service.

I was called on to answer the question “What is love?” Briefly. Say in 2-3 minutes.

So ten minutes later (give or take two), the moderator called me forward to speak my piece.

Love is the capacity to live for the good of another.

A measure of this has been given to all people. Back before creating man, God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness” (Genesis 1:26).

And in 1 John 4:10 we’re reminded of God’s own demonstration of love: “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”

There’s your answer to what love is.

God calls us to that.

And from Creation He stamped us with His image…and so gave us the capacity to live for the good of another.

(If I talked for more than two minutes, it wasn’t by much. But then, I was supposed to be super brief. And I had little advance warning. And my head wasn’t feeling well at all. Upshot: Thank God for His help.)