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Weekly Devotional

August 11, 2008
 

Habakkuk 3:17-18  ¹⁷ Though the fig tree does not blossom, and no fruit is on the vines; though the produce of the olive fails, and the fields yield no food; though the flock is cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls,  ¹⁸ yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will exult in the God of my salvation.

Our devotion this morning comes from a book that my grandmother received on the 45^th anniversary of her teaching Sunday School at her church.  The book, Streams in the Desert, is a yearly devotion written by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman.  It contains scripture for each day as well as personal thoughts and short notes that she collected in her many years of being a missionary.  Below is the devotion for today.  The scripture that goes with it is above.

“Observe, I entreat you, how calamitous a circumstance is here supposed, and how heroic a faith is expressed.  It is really as if he said, “Though I should be reduced to so great extremity as not to know where to find my necessary good, though I should look around about me on an empty house and a desolate field, and see the marks of the Divine scourge where I have once seen the fruits of God’s bounty, yet I will rejoice in the Lord.

Methinks these words are worthy of being written as with a diamond on a rock forever.  Oh, that by Divine grace they might be deeply engraven on each of our hearts!  Concise as the form of speaking in the text is, it evidently implies or expresses the following particulars: That in the day of his distress he would fly to God; that he would maintain a holy composure of spirit under this dark dispensation, nay, that in the midst of all he would indulge in a sacred joy in God, and a cheerful expectation from him.  Heroic confidence!  Illustrious faith!  Unconquerable love! –Dodridge”

In our prayers this week: 

Alma, the mothers of Doris and Gail, Doris, Olga, and her sister Addy.

God’s Peace,

Pastor Judson