Devotions
Pastor R. Michael Sanders
One of Those Days
“Be strong and bold; have no fear or dread of them, because it is the Lord your God who goes with you; he will not fail you or forsake you.” Deuteronomy 31.6 NRSV
October 2, 2019
The RC Cola was frozen when I opened it and gushed onto my only clean shirt.
My car would not start. Fifteen minutes of cleaning the battery cables finally got it going just in time to be rear-ended at the only stop light in the small town where I lived.
I went to the post office where the promised and needed check still had not arrived.
As I walked into the church, I saw my friend on the phone. I heard him say, “Dynamite you say? Are you sure?” He hung up the phone and said, “That was a young man from the youth group. He said his father has gotten some dynamite and plans to blow up the church. You do know his Dad was just released from the mental ward?”
We all have one of those days because none of us got an exemption card from the human race. It isn’t because God is angry with us or has forgotten who we are. But we all still live in a broken world and things happen.
Cars break down and people fail us. But God never forgets who we are and where we are.
Prayer: Lord, today may be fantastic or there may be some bumps. But I know I am not alone.
© Copyright R. Michael Sanders 2019
So I Stopped and Looked
"Faithfulness will spring up from the ground, and righteousness will look down from the sky.” Psalm 85.11 NRSV
October 1, 2019
The fierce storm had ended yesterday. I was up in the loft, considering which idea I would try to form into a devotion for today.
I looked out the window and the sky was astonishing. In the center was a soft blue sky surrounded on each side by a rusty red cloud and off to the left, higher in the sky was the bright sliver of moon, higher than the sky or so it seemed to me.
I had never seen a sky quite like what I was seeing. After a moment, I stopped typing and watched as the beauty slowly, oh so slowly, faded away as the moon stood guard over the night.
Sometime soon you see or hear that which surprises you for a moment. Don’t walk away saying, “Wasn’t that something?” Stay and let it touch you even more deeply.
Prayer: Lord, thank You for the wonder of it all.
© Copyright R. Michael Sanders 2019
Pastor R. Michael Sanders
One of Those Days
“Be strong and bold; have no fear or dread of them, because it is the Lord your God who goes with you; he will not fail you or forsake you.” Deuteronomy 31.6 NRSV
October 2, 2019
The RC Cola was frozen when I opened it and gushed onto my only clean shirt.
My car would not start. Fifteen minutes of cleaning the battery cables finally got it going just in time to be rear-ended at the only stop light in the small town where I lived.
I went to the post office where the promised and needed check still had not arrived.
As I walked into the church, I saw my friend on the phone. I heard him say, “Dynamite you say? Are you sure?” He hung up the phone and said, “That was a young man from the youth group. He said his father has gotten some dynamite and plans to blow up the church. You do know his Dad was just released from the mental ward?”
We all have one of those days because none of us got an exemption card from the human race. It isn’t because God is angry with us or has forgotten who we are. But we all still live in a broken world and things happen.
Cars break down and people fail us. But God never forgets who we are and where we are.
Prayer: Lord, today may be fantastic or there may be some bumps. But I know I am not alone.
© Copyright R. Michael Sanders 2019
So I Stopped and Looked
"Faithfulness will spring up from the ground, and righteousness will look down from the sky.” Psalm 85.11 NRSV
October 1, 2019
The fierce storm had ended yesterday. I was up in the loft, considering which idea I would try to form into a devotion for today.
I looked out the window and the sky was astonishing. In the center was a soft blue sky surrounded on each side by a rusty red cloud and off to the left, higher in the sky was the bright sliver of moon, higher than the sky or so it seemed to me.
I had never seen a sky quite like what I was seeing. After a moment, I stopped typing and watched as the beauty slowly, oh so slowly, faded away as the moon stood guard over the night.
Sometime soon you see or hear that which surprises you for a moment. Don’t walk away saying, “Wasn’t that something?” Stay and let it touch you even more deeply.
Prayer: Lord, thank You for the wonder of it all.
© Copyright R. Michael Sanders 2019