wow! what a long day today! and when it was over i got to take my little boy noah to the urgent care...he had fallen outside playing baseball and had a bad cut on his left knee...of course when i arrived home noah was in tears and everybody was trying to give their explanation of what had happened....that can get a little crazy....
while at the urgent care i observed the doctor work on noah's knee...no stitches needed just some sterile strips...but while she cleaned the wound noah wrenched in pain from the burning sensation....when the doctor had finished the cleaning all noah wanted to know was would he be ready for his basketball tryouts this saturday...as i listened to him i realized that the pain was bearable as long as he could still consider the joy of saturday basketball tryouts....
and then i thought of Jesus...who for the joy set before him endured the cross!
i wonder if we thought more about the joy that awaits us how much more we could endure?
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This post comes at the perfect time. Of course, God is always on time! What is my pain? Being unemployed...not just for the lack of income, but because I have skills to put to use to help out. What is my joy? The promise that God will never leave me alone to deal with it and He has a perfect plan for my life. Lee, thanks for the reminder, Bro.
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