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Isaiah 40:21-22a
Do you not know? Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood since the earth was founded?
(Here is the resounding question
the prophet Isaiah still today asks of us,
of us who, instead, of looking to Almighty God
so often worship at the altars of idols,
false gods such as those the world offers
like materialism, humanism, and secularism,
or those of a more intimate nature, such as titles and the corner office,
or our attempts to be in control of events and people around us,
or even, as foolish as it sounds, at the altars of unforgiveness or bitterness.)
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
(Sovereign, majestic, awesome God Most High
Who reigns from above the heavens in His unlimited power and wisdom
is more different from us than we are from a locust.
He is high and lifted up and, compared to this indescribable God,
we are insignificant and negligible.
Yet, today, in His love and mercy,
He regards our humble estate and singles us out,
naming us a delight to Him, the apple of His eye, favored and blessed,
and chooses to make His dwelling place in us.
Beyond the miracle of creation,
beyond the wonder of the heavens above us and the earth beneath our feet,
the miracle we behold today before us
is that the Lord actually chooses us to be a friend of God's.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 40:20
A person too poor to present such an offering
selects wood that will not rot;
they look for a skilled worker to set up an idol that will not topple.
(Today, we still try our best to find a person or thing
to which we can give our adoration.
Though our worship at the feet of these idols
costs far more than we can afford,
we maintain our drive to refine and mold and shape our crafted idol,
desperate to make it meet our needs.
We keep foolishly putting our faith and trust
in someone or something besides the Lord,
hoping that will be the answer to our need,
and we are constantly disappointed.
The truth is that no thing, no one, no power,
no being in the entire creation can compare to God.
Today, the Lord does not decay or rot away
from old age or disinterest or lack of use,
nor does He topple when the winds of adversity rise up.
He remains fixed, seated on His throne, majestic,
and, just for the asking, is eager to pour out His blessing on us His people,
is eager to develop deeper relationship with us
and to reveal Himself in greater ways to us.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 40:18-19
With whom, then, will you compare God?
(To whom or to what can we compare the Lord God Almighty?
We so often act, perhaps unconsciously, as if this Almighty God Most High
is little more than slightly deaf, a bit slow-headed, not very "with it,"
a little long in the tooth and a bit decrepit, and not very responsive.
And, yet, regardless of how we perceive Him,
He is Sovereign Creator, Jehovah God.)
To what image will you liken Him?
As for an idol, a metalworker casts it,
and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it.
(Our so-called advanced intellectualism today rejects the idea
that we in the modern world serve and worship idols.
That was for the uneducated, inferior cultures of earlier man
who lacked advancement and knowledge and maturity,
and we are beyond such quaint foolishness.
However, not only are idols very much a part of us today;
in fact, they are much more refined and slick,
much more advanced, much more sophisticated.
Today, as a society, we worship at the altar of the idols of materialism,
of humanism, of secularism, of status and title, of name and recognition.
On a more personal level, we worship and bow
at the altar of fear, despair, anger, unforgiveness,
resentment, bitterness, entitlement,
the determination to control people and events around us, to name but a few.
Just as surely as earlier peoples forged idols out of wood and gold,
so we today fashion idols out of intangibles,
yielding to these strongholds through our thinking and behaviors.
Today, may we remember the Lord God Almighty is our God
and give our allegiance and worship to Him and to Him only.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 40:17
Before Him all the nations are as nothing;
they are regarded by Him as worthless and less than nothing.
(The nations, the situations, the attacks, the adversaries,
the difficulties, the lack, the challenges in our lives
are no more than a mere raindrop in the vast ocean
of God's mighty power and presence and provision.
The Lord views those things in our lives
that seem to us insurmountable, impossible, irredeemable, hopeless,
as though they were no more than a speck of dust. They are as nothing.
The greatness of the mightiest power on earth
sinks to absolute nothingness when compared to the greatness of our God.
Our privilege today is to respond to the Lord's invitation
to see this God we serve as He really is
and to know that He really does what He says He will do,
that nothing and no one is greater than He,
and that He chooses to favor us, to extend mercy and grace to us,
and to call us His very Own.
He delights in us today!)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 40:16
Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires,
nor its animals enough for burnt offerings.
(While we give the Lord praise and honor,
while He chooses to accept them from us,
we also know, in reality, that all our praise, all our sacrifice,
cannot possibly give the full honor and glory to this God
Who is above all and over all,
Who is sovereign and majestic and all-glorious,

Who is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent,
Who is deserving of far more honor than we are capable of giving.
The book of Revelation shows us that one aspect of eternity
will be the Lord eternally revealing again and again
yet another new and different aspect of His endless power and glory,
yet another holy and awesome aspect of His character,
to which we and the angels and hosts of heaven are able to do nothing
but repeatedly express our total and absolute awe and praise of God.
He is so vastly much more than the "Man upstairs" or any other small designation
we sometimes give this majestic and awesome Creator God.
Yet He chooses to accept our attempt to praise Him
because He cherishes us, His created.
Today, may we be mindful of giving the Lord
our most reverent worship and highest praise.
He is entirely worthy of our complete veneration and honor.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 40:15
Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket;
they are regarded as dust on the scales;
He weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.
(Just as a single drop of water doesn't add to the weight of a bucket of water,
nor a film of dust add to the weight of a measure of soil,
all the mighty nations and islands of the earth are insignificant
in comparison to the Sovereign God Who created them.
In the same way, all the issues we face today,
all the challenges and hardships that come across our path today,
are no more than a drop in the bucket or a fine dusting in the scope of our lives.
While they may seem insurmountable to us,
the Lord weighs them differently,
and He invites us today to look at these issues
as He sees them, through His perspective.
The real challenge for us today is not the hardship before us,
though it may be deeply difficult.
The real challenge for us is to focus on Christ Jesus
as our Savior and Lord in and through the situation,
to remember that He is greater than all our needs,
to remember that He is God and the situation is a mere passing circumstance,
no more than moments in time that He uses
to draw us to Him and to reveal Himself to us.
Today, we are safe in His care.
We are secure in His mighty hand.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 40:13-14
Who can fathom the Spirit of the Lord,
or instruct the Lord as His counselor?
Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten Him,
and who taught Him the right way?
Who was it that taught Him knowledge,
or showed Him the path of understanding?
(Our finite minds and thinking cannot know
the unimaginable fullness and vastness of this God we serve,
the pure knowledge, complete wisdom, and immeasurable power of the Lord,
and yet we try to tell God what we need,
when we need it, and how we want it delivered.
We try to "instruct" the Lord.
We try to "enlighten" Him and to teach Him what we need
as if we have to convince Him to act on our behalf,
as if He is a slightly deaf and a bit slow
and must not have heard us when we prayed.
While He invites us to ask Him for our needs
and eagerly desires that we speak to Him the matters of our heart,
we need to do the asking in light of the act of putting into words
what He already knows about us,
an act of faith on our part that we know He cares
and supplies our needs beyond what we could ever know to ask for,
that our asking is in the context of the arena
of the intimacy of relationship-building into which He invites us.
When we focus on Him and trust His all-knowing,
majestic, and sovereign knowledge and understanding
of us and of our circumstances,
we wisely place ourselves in His good and loving hands.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 40:12
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,
or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens?
Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket,
or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance?
(The answer is a resounding "No one except God, the Mighty Creator!"
Only He has created this place we call home from the chaos and darkness
that existed before He spoke creation into being.
Yet, our recurring tendency is to pare God down to something human-sized.
Since we can't really comprehend Him,
we try to make Him more understandable,
but He is without limit, without boundary in His power and capability
and in His wisdom and understanding.
If we really believe He is Who He says He is,
then the troubles and trials we face today
fade against the light of His power and might,
against His desire to carry and protect us,
against His sure and true sovereignty and majesty.
Even as He created the waters and dust of the earth,
holding them in the hollow of His hand,
He created us and all that makes up our lives,
using whatever trials that come against us to reveal Himself
and His redemptive and saving power more clearly to us.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 40:11
He tends His flock like a shepherd:
He gathers the lambs in His arms
and carries them close to His heart;
He gently leads those that have young.
(What a compelling picture of a shepherd gathering his lambs in his arms
and holding them close to his heart.
While our God is a consuming fire, while He is fiercely powerful,
He is also a caring, loving Shepherd Who deeply cares for us.
We are His lambs today and He gathers us in His arms
to protect us and to nurture us and to hold us close to His heart.
He gently and carefully leads us, mindful of us,
knowing that we have cares and responsibilities, wounds and struggles and incapacity,
and guiding us through those responsibilities
which are in our custody and purview.
Just as a lamb has no other thought
except to trust its shepherd who carries it,

so we can trust completely the Shepherd Who carries us today.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 40:10
See, the Sovereign Lord comes with power,
and He rules with a mighty arm.
(The Lord God, Adonai Jehovah, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent,
dependent on nothing or no one but Himself,
completely whole and adequate within Himself,
rules with complete, invincible sovereignty.
While our view of God often boxes Him
into neat, more comprehensible, human-sized boundaries,
fencing Him into what our intellect can comprehend and accept,
He is the God Whose coming and supremacy rests completely in His power,
and He needs no strength or force other than His own
to effect His absolute and sovereign rule.
And that He does: He comes today into our lives,
He rules, with might and power.)
See, His reward is with Him,
and His recompense accompanies Him.
(He not only invades our lives with His mighty power and presence,
but He also brings blessings with Him,
blessings of peace between God and us,
and forgiveness, redemption, salvation, hope, comfort, provision, and healing.
Anywhere He is, His blessings to us accompany Him, and He is with us today!)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 40:9
You who bring good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain.
You who bring good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with a shout,
lift it up, do not be afraid; say to the towns of Judah,
“Here is your God!”
(With joy and celebration, today we are given the divine imperative and privilege
to deliver the good news to Zion, Jerusalem, and the towns of Judah,
the very people of God today who are in our lives all around us,
and we do so by declaring the Lord's life-giving message publicly and openly
so all can hear that He has come, that He is here, that He is present.
He has chosen to make Himself known and to reveal Himself to us.
Today, we ourselves, as the Zion, as the Jerusalem
to whom the message of deliverance is given,
can rejoice that the Lord has invaded our own lives with His truth.
Today, we ourselves, as the Zion, as the Jerusalem,
also pass on the message of hope to the waiting world around us,
unabashedly and unashamedly declaring the truth
of the Lord's redemption and salvation.
And His clarion call that pierces the most difficult situations we face
shouts the truth that our God is here, that He is here in the now and with us today,
and, as we behold Him and His work, as He makes Himself known to us,
He works out His purposes in us in every detail of our lives.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 40:7-8
“All people are like grass,
and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field.
The grass withers and the flowers fall,
because the breath of the Lord blows on them.
Surely the people are grass.
The grass withers and the flowers fall,
but the word of our God endures forever.”
(The Lord tells Isaiah to speak these words to His people
to remind them how fleeting and transient are the things of the earth,
but how eternal and unchanging are the words of God.
Today, the Lord tells us to remember these truths, too, when we cry out to Him.
The word of the Lord to us still today is to remind us
that even though we are frail, mortal, and temporary,
like the grass and flowers of the field
picturing for us daily how transient we are,
the Lord's sustaining breath of life
is what sustains life in us and in the world around us
and, even more than that, that His promises are true,
that they are enduring and everlasting.
While the things of the world are fleeting,
God's promises are eternal and undeviating.

There isn't even a shadow of turning in Him.
The absolute, unwavering truth of His promises to us remains true
no matter what circumstances may appear to rule in our lives today.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 40:6
A voice says, “Cry out.”
And I said, “What shall I cry?”
(The Lord reveals to Isaiah that He wants Isaiah to speak to His people.
When Isaiah asks the Lord what he should tell the people on the Lord's behalf,
the Lord even invites His prophet to ask Him
what words to tell the people to say to their God.
The voice of the Lord is still inviting us to cry out to Him
and to put into words those things for which we seem to have no words,
to deepen our relationship with Him by being open and honest
with Him Who already knows all there is to know about us.
Not only does the Lord yearn for us to call to Him,
He also invites us to ask Him what to pray for and what to cry out for.
When we allow Him to fill our mouth today
with the words He wants us to speak to Him,
we cry out the matters that are aligned with the Lord's own heart for us,
the matters He Himself prays over us.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 40:5
"And the glory of the Lord will be revealed,
and all people will see it together.
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
(As the Lord invades our lives, as He conquers the territory of our lives,
lives that He created and owns, lives that He guides and directs,
He unveils Himself to us as Lord and Savior.
The glory of the Lord, our covenant Lord and Creator,
is revealed to us and in us as we look to Him.
It is then we see the salvation of the Lord,
His great and complete salvation in Christ,
that salvation that includes provision and deliverance and
preservation and healing and protection and prosperity of our soul,
is a salvation that God Himself has proclaimed, has brought about,
that no power on earth or in the heavens can thwart or impede.
We can stand in complete assurance and confidence
that He has granted us a revelation of His glory today
as we benefit from the salvation He has spoken over us.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 40:4
Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low;
the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain.
(As we open a straight pathway for the Lord to come into our lives,
as we make a highway into our hearts and minds
free of resistance to Him and open to Him,
the Lord makes what looks impossible to us,
what looks impassable to us, a smooth walkway,
a walkway where the mountain presently blocking our way is removed
and the rough ground is smoothed out.
As we walk in His purposes, as we walk in His ways,
we walk on a path that He prepares for us, a path He makes clear and navigable.
Where we now stumble, where the path is blocked,
where the way ahead is dark and impenetrable,
He extends this promise to us that He will guide us on a path of His Own making.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 40:3
A voice of one calling:
(In His eagerness for His people to hear His message of hope and salvation,
the Lord tells His servant to make the clarion call that God is visiting His people,
to tell them He is making Himself known and revealing Himself to them.)
“In the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord;
make straight in the desert a highway for our God."
(The wilderness of our world still desperately needs
to hear our voice pointing others to the Lord.
As His servant, as His messenger, as His trusted envoy,
today, we are still that voice crying out to the wilderness of this world
to a world desperately in need of a Savior
that the Lord is redeemer and healer, peace and comfort and provider.
In the wilderness of our own lives,
and perhaps even now experiencing deep challenges,
the Lord, the covenant God Who has declared
that He is our God and we are His people, is on the move.
As we look to Him, we prepare the way

for Him to reveal Himself even in our desert.
As we look to Him, we are opening a straight path for Him
to invade the wilderness of our lives with His truth.
His way is the way of triumph, a path of victory
through which the King of Glory invades our lives today.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 40:1-2
Comfort, comfort My people, says your God.
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her
that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for,
(The Lord's message to us today is
that He wants us to be comforted, to give each other comfort,
to comfort ourselves in the Lord.
He is speaking directly to us today, to "Jerusalem,"
declaring that those challenges and hardships that have beset us
do not and will not last forever because He has set a limit on them,
that He has embraced us despite our sin and has set us free in Him,
that He has forgiven our disobedience and rebellion.)
that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.
(He has paid for our sin of being lukewarm, of being unforgiving,

of harboring anger and resentment, of disobedience, of trying to be in control,
of being focused on material things rather than the things of God,
of turning our backs on Him and pursuing other gods.
He not only does He forgive us of all our sins,
He not only puts those sins behind us,
but He adds blessing upon blessing to us,
in fact, even twice the amount of blessing as we had suffered hardships.
He sets us free today to rejoice in His forgiveness and deliverance and blessings!)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 38:18-19
For the grave cannot praise You, death cannot sing Your praise;
those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
The living, the living—they praise You, as I am doing today;
parents tell their children about Your faithfulness.
(As Hezekiah gives praise to the Lord for His mighty rescue from death,
he reminds himself that his purpose now in life has changed,
that this new lease on life compels him to speak to the world about the Lord
Whom he serves and Who has rescued him.
While we may never know all the reasons for our suffering this side of Heaven,
we can know that God is always with us.
Through Hezekiah's prayer of thanksgiving for his healing,
the Lord shows us that we are saved to speak forth the praises of God,
to be a living testimony to His faithfulness and intervention and healing.
We are delivered from all the many pits in which we find ourselves entrapped
so that, through the deeper, personal, objective, and concrete experience
of coming to know the Lord as Rescuer and Savior,
we praise Him as the Source of all we are
and tell others with conviction today about His healing and deliverance.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 38:17b
In Your love You kept me from the pit of destruction;
You have put all my sins behind Your back.
(As Hezekiah thanks the Lord for His deliverance,
Hezekiah is referring to the pit of death.
His illness was an illness unto death, and the Lord has healed him.
Today, the pit of death in our lives may take many forms,
and He applies His healing in many ways in our lives.
His deliverance frees us from the oppression of circumstances,
as well as the even greater release from the rule of sin in our lives.
Only God's mighty hand pulls us out of the pit today.
Only He saves us from the troubles in the world
over which we have no control.
Only He saves us from the oppression, fears, attacks,
and lack of purpose that overwhelm us.
Only He saves us from ourselves and our own foolish choices.
Only He saves us into His healing, hope, forgiveness,
salvation, redemption, and into peace with Him and with ourselves.
As we look to Him, as we seek Him,
only He forgives us and sets us free from our past.
Only He gives us a new present and a different future founded in Him.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 38:17a
Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish.
(Although Hezekiah has been through a harrowing, near-death illness,
realizing at the time that his life was over unless the Lord intervened,
he acknowledges that the Lord has benefitted him
even through that former anguish and suffering.
Any suffering of ours is never without purpose.
The Lord has promised to make all things work together for our good
because we are called according to His purpose.
Our sorrows and hardships today are not the conclusion of our story.
They only point to the Lord's intense and personal interest and purpose
in using everything in our lives to work together for our good.

He has not promised that we will be free from troubles,
but He has promised that He will be with us
even through the valley of the shadow of death.

And He has declared He will never, ever leave us alone,
that He will never, ever leave us without His support and presence.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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2 Chronicles 7:13-15

 “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain,
or command locusts to devour the land
or send a plague among My people,
(Speaking to Solomon, the Lord reminds us
that our disobedience and rebellion may cause Him
to respond to our strong and stubborn will in harsh, but deeply loving ways,
in the ways of a Father Who disciplines His children.)
if My people, who are called by My name,
will humble themselves and pray and seek My face
and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven,
and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
(Lord, help us today remember that we are Your people,
that we are called by Your name.
Help us to humble ourselves. Help us to pray.
Help us to seek You and turn from our wicked ways
so that You will hear us and forgive us and heal our land.
Help us to bend our stubborn knees and stiff neck in repentance.)
Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive
to the prayers offered in this place."
(As we celebrate our country's birth, as we look to You, Lord,
upon Whose Word this country was founded,
remembering who we are, that we are called by Your name,
as we humble ourselves, as we pray, as we seek You and turn from our wickedness,
You promise to hear our prayers. In You, Lord, we put out hope.
May God bless America.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 38:16
Lord, by such things people live; and my spirit finds life in them too.
(In Hezekiah's prayer of thanksgiving for his healing and extended life,
he declares that the Lord's promises and intervention
form the very fabric and foundation of our ability to live.
Only through Him, only through the truth of God's promises,
can we find the life-giving strength and hope that is ours in Him.)
You restored me to health and let me live.
(Today, the Lord has restored and renewed us.
Today, the Lord intervenes in our lives
in specific and unique and personal ways,
ways designed explicitly for us and the situations in which we live today,
to restore us to health and wholeness, to well-being and new life.
In Him we live and move and have our being.
In Him is life. He is the One Who grants us His favor
and smoothes the path before us,
Who grants us the ability to walk in His way.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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Isaiah 38:15b
I will walk humbly all my years because of this anguish of my soul.
(Hezekiah knew the Lord had snatched him from the jaws of death
through His healing touch from Hezekiah's deathly illness.
Having cried out to the Lord pleading for healing,
having received the Lord's intervention
with the promise of additional years to live,
Hezekiah was never the same after that.
This experience changed him forever and caused him
to humbly meditate and reflect on his previous suffering
and to know the Lord in deeper ways that he ever had before.
When we experience and endure hardship and challenges,
when we call to the Lord to save us,
when He hears our cry and intervenes,
when we experience His healing and salvation in impossible situations,
changed forever, as we humbly and gratefully reflect
on the Lord's great love and mercy in our lives,
we rejoice in having come to know Him through those valleys
in deeper experiential levels in our faith walk with Him.)

May the Lord richly bless you this day!

In Christ's love,

Blessings,

Sally
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