Good morning…
This morning I revisit the notes I scribbled during this week’s Lovett Moms In Prayer gathering. As our community bonds together in a tumultuous time of grief following the death of two beloved dads in a helicopter crash, truths shared by the speaker continue to minister to me.
She said, “When you don’t know what to do, you do what you know to do.”
Right now I think: We know to eat. We know to pray. We know to love. We know to do and to say and to care about the top priorities on our “MINE to do list” this day.
She said, “If we try to understand God’s sovereignty, we will lose our minds. If we try to deny God’s sovereignty, we will lose our souls.”
Right now I think: God’s loving thoughts and God’s eternal ways are higher than our passing thoughts and our short-sighted ways. God’s thoughts and ways are higher, beyond our comprehension. Always have been. Always will be.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:38).
She said, “Nothing will separate us from the love of God. How sweet is it that ‘death’ is first on the list?”
Right now I think: God raised Jesus from death. And if God’s Spirit is living in you, then he will also give life to your bodies that die. God is the One who raised Christ from death. And he will give life through his Spirit that lives in you (Romans 8:11, ICB). Nothing can separate us from the love of the risen Christ since God’s life-giving Spirit now fills full our veins.
The single thing I will always remember most about my experience that morning with this grieving group of about forty young moms is this. As we went around the room praying aloud from the prepared sheet of scriptures, what verse was MINE to read?
But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope. The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him” (Lamentations 3:21-24).
Remember? This is the very same verse God called to my mind through an old hymn that first morning I woke in deep prayer for the families and friends grieving this excruciating loss.
…Sue…
