Heart To Heart

We were in Colorado this week to be together with a group of friends that we have met with on a regular basis for the last 21 years.  Initially when we started this, it was for a couple of specific reasons. Accountability - we had seen too many ministers become casualties and didn't want to walk this journey alone. Growth - we wanted to learn.  Dick and Ruth Foth agreed to meet with us once a year.  Our commitment was 5 years....which has continued for 21 years! This year's time will be unforgetable.  Ruth is a quiet, strong, deep, Godly woman.  Dick is the teacher, the story teller,  the traveller.    We spend this time together sharing, talking, praying - which we were doing on Tuesday morning.  Ruth "leaned in" to look me in the eye and share the following.... " Dear Child, God does not say today, 'Be strong.' He knows your strength is spent; He knows how long  The road has been, how weary you have grown. For ...

"Cast your cares on the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous fall." Psalm 5:22 Here's an excerpt from C.H. Spurgeon's devotional book, "Morning and Evening:  Daily Readings" . . .  Care, even though exercised upon legitimate objects, if carried to excess, has in it the nature of sin.  The precept to avoid anxious care  is earnestly inculcated by our Saviour, again and again...the very essence of anxious care  is the imagining that we are wiser than God, and the thrusting ourselves into His place to do for Him that which He has undertaken to for us. We attempt to think of that which we fancy He will forget; we labour to take upon ourselves our weary burden , as if He were unable or unwilling to take it for us. ... Anxious care  often leads to acts of sin.  He who cannot calmly leave his affairs in God's hand, but will carry his own burden, is very likely to be tempted to use wrong means to help himself...