What a week of wonderful weather!!
We are enjoying summer-like temperatures for another two days before they plummet!
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I am so thankful God’s goodness does not shift like shadows (or weather!)
With love comes a weight of care, doesn’t it?!
Wherever, in this care-bearing we are,
What comfort to know we are called to cast our care on Him!
…casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.
1 Pet. 5:7
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Beneath the burdens that we bear,
Beneath love’s constant cross of care
There is comfort beyond compare
In God’s mercy renewed
When we are weak then we are strong
Through He whose will is never wrong
Whose grace ignites in us a song
Of humble gratitude
The love that bore redemption’s wail
As triumph tore the temple’s veil
Is faultless and will never fail
Where all in this world will
Then, though want oft misunderstands
The cost obedience demands
As we ponder Christ’s nail-scarred hands
Storms of rebellion still
As we cast our cares on He
Who kindly cares for you and me
He helps us through the parts we see
Of toil and trouble’s toll
Love’s cross is never borne in vain
Though oft we stagger ‘neath its grain/pain
His grace and goodness will sustain
The winepress of the Soul
Where pride primps reason’s cunning tricks
Where failure and folly afflicts
The righteousness of God convicts
And leads us on and up
Where beneath the burdens we bear
That pave life’s/faith’s path with prayer on prayer
His promises, beyond compare
Fill hope’s uplifted cup
© Janet Martin
James 1:12-18
Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because
having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life
that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
13 When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.”
For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone;
14 but each person is tempted when they are dragged away
by their own evil desire and enticed.
15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin;
and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
16 Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters.
17 Every good and perfect gift is from above,
coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights,
who does not change like shifting shadows.
18 He chose to give us birth through the word of truth,
that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
