![]() Isaiah tells us that we are carved on the palm of God’s hand and will never be forgotten by God. We are all objects of God’s mercy, some in one way, others in another. I’m convinced that God will bring into my life what or whom I need. The past makes me hopeful for the future. I’m one of billions in the world yet I’m convinced God has paid special attention to me. Are they not written in your book?” (Psa. “You have kept an account of my wanderings you have kept a record of my tears. God’s presence is sometimes seen only in a “rear-view mirror.” There were moments when I knew that God cared for me personally. Sometimes it takes time to understand things that happened. ![]() I have experienced God’s grace and power in my life. One of the consequences of growing older is that one develops a sense of how one thing leads to another. One result of longevity is that one can look back and see how things fitted together to form a pattern. There were the fingerprints of a providential hand. When I reflect on my own life, I can often say, when certain events are well-examined, that God acted there in that particular time His hand rested upon me. When I look back over my own life, I can see many “coincidences” or “lucky breaks” which now I can see as the result of divine intervention. When I reflect on my own life, I do glimpse the hand of God. On the other hand, the Psalms constantly urge us to look back and remember the things God has done for us. ![]() There’s what a poet called “the world’s rain of tears.” It seems to be true that there is no uninterrupted joy. No one is safe from trouble in the world. Everyone, to a large or small extent, has felt rejection. Growing up, probably most of us were wronged in one way or another. Helena waiting for many (most) of us be it a hospital, nursing home or just a room somewhere. After his great victories, Napoleon was shipped to a remote South Atlantic island named St. Nebo, saw something and learned it was not going to be for them?Īnd there is our likeness to Napoleon. I wonder how many people have climbed their particular Mt. Again and again, we are allowed to see with our eyes but not allowed to go over. Men and women struggle all their years in devotion to some cause, and just on the eve of triumph, they are gone. Again and again God says to people, “I have caused you to see with your eyes, but you shall not go there.” A couple makes plans for the future and their dreams of retirement, and then right on the threshold of it all, one is taken. Mt Nebo was the mount Moses stood on when God showed him the promised land and told him he would not enter it. For instance, how many people come to stand, at some time or another, on Mount Nebo. It can stir me with a deep sense of compassion. As I grow older, I tend more and more to see so much that can make me sad and a bit discouraged.
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