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My Daily Blessing from My Daily Bible Reading
with meditations
by my mother, Poetess Gertrude Sanborn
JANUARY
19
Genesis 50:24 -- Exodus 4:13
A CHILD’S BIRTH
MEMORIES
Exodus 1:21-22
"I have been a
stranger in a strange land."
I think of the loneliness of Moses. There he was in a
"strange land," married to a woman very
unlike the women of Egypt whom he knew, or even like
his birth-mother. There he was a father for the first
time in a strange land. His whole life had taken on a
new persona. He no longer had the status of the adopted
child of a princess or even the birth-son of a slave. He
was a shepherd out in the sun, away from the pleasures
of Egypt.
As Moses gazed at his baby son, little Gershom, he
was overcome with his circumstances. It was then that he
cried, "I have been a stranger in a strange land." How
like many of us, like Moses, have journeyed far from our
place of birth. We are literally in a "strange land."
Now we are adjusting to the present and pushing away
from our past. May God use us as He did Moses in such
circumstances. Soon we will not be "strangers" in a
"strange land." We will be at "HOME!" (ysw)
"OUR LIFE IS A VAPOR"
(James 4:14)
Has there been a death of some one
near and dear? What is the lesson in this for me?
This loss should jolt us to take stock
of our life.
Is it pleasing to the Lord? Are we
ready to meet Him?
How is the ledger of my life if He
should suddenly call my name?
What have I done?
The death of a dear one should teach
us to do what we can to please and help others
while they are here, so there will be
no regrets when they go. (GGS)
And Sarah heard it in the tent door,
which was behind him. And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And
he said, Behold, in the tent. And he said, I will
certainly return unto thee according to the time of
life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. (Genesis 18:10)
Under God's Care,
Yvonne S. Waite
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