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  1. ~ Sifted by the Lord

    For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth. Amos 9:9

    Every sifting comes by divine command and permission. Satan must ask permission before he can lay a finger upon Job. In actual fact, in some sense our siftings are directly the work of heaven, for in the text God says that He will “shake the house of Israel.” Satan, like a slave, may hold the sieve, hoping for the worst; but the overruling hand of the Master is accomplishing His purpose by the very process that the enemy hopes will be destructive. Precious children of God, even though you are shaken, be comforted by the blessed fact that the Lord directs the whole process for His own glory and for your eternal profit.

    The Lord Jesus will graciously and yet firmly divide that which is precious from that which is of little account. All are not Israel that are of Israel; the grain on the barn floor is not clean and pure, and so the shaking process must be performed. In the sieve, husks and chaff fly before the wind, and only solid substance will remain.

    Observe the complete safety of the Lord’s wheat; even a pebble has a promise of preservation. God Himself sifts, and therefore it is stern and terrible work; He sifts them in all places, “among all the nations”; He sifts them in the most effective manner, “as one shakes with a sieve”; and yet in all this, not the smallest, lightest, or most shriveled grain is permitted to fall to the ground.

    Every individual believer is precious in the sight of the Lord. A shepherd would not lose one sheep, nor a jeweler one diamond, nor a mother one child, nor a man one limb of his body; nor will the Lord lose one of His redeemed people. However little we may be, if we are the Lord’s, we may rejoice that we are preserved in Christ Jesus. ~

    Devotional material is taken from Morning and Evening, written by C. H. Spurgeon, revised and updated by Alistair Begg.

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  3. I travel in about 20 hours to friends in Fort Wayne. My friend just called to report her husband is in the ER and they don’t expect him to come home for several days.

    I told her I could get a hotel room, rent a car, or sit quietly at her house and cook.

    I’m going on to a conference in Chicago, so it’s too complicated for me to reschedule. Besides my cousin lives near Indianpolis and we have an open door in catastrophe policy in our extended family.

    I can always go there.

    Please pray, though, not for me but for Dave. That they discover anything important, or that he’s simply healed and able to go home.

    Thanks.

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  6. Prayer here as illness has struck again. It is VBS week after all. Son vomited a couple nights ago but thought it was asthma related. Now daughter is doing everything intestinal. We don’t want this going the rounds. But God.

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  10. Thanks for prayers for Dave. They’ve run every test imagineable (honestly, kids, medical people see a nuclear submarine officer and all sorts of crazy thoughts run through their heads!)

    Anyway, they’ve ruled out the worst and suspect it’s just a back issue.

    He’ll spend the night at the hospital–probably on a gurney in the ER!

    Anne bailed me out of so many disasters during our three years on the same boat (and I just sold an article to Guideposts describing one of them and naming her!), I told her it would be an honor to be there, for once, for her family.

    Anyway, Dave loved that idea, and I’ll be enjoying my friends in Fort Wayne for a few days.

    Hey Cheryl, any suggestions on something I might value visiting in Chicago? We’ve ended up with a few extra days there–but you know, we anticipate God will do something interesting.

    We always visit the Art Institute and the Field Museum (where my grandfather saw his first airplane: the one the Wright Brothers flew!)

    Maybe there’s something else. I, personally, would always vote to go to a library and do reseach! LOL.

    (It was cheaper to rent a car and drive it to Chicago O’Hare to pick up my husband, than to fly to O’Hare, meet him, and rent a car there. Craziness! We’re attending a conference there.)

    Renting the car in Fort Wayne allows me to stop at Winona Lake, Indiana–where Lettie Cowman spent her summers in the 1930s and 1940s. Blog post coming! LOL.

    Thanks again.

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