Stop, Look, Listen

This is good advise to follow. It could prevent dangerous conditions which might come upon an individual.

Monday night I stopped by the hospital to see Don. I was walking across the street beside Dr. Bailey's office and watching for oncoming traffic. Just before I stepped on the curb on the hospital side of the street, I heard a car to my right. A driver coming toward me traveling the wrong direction. I never considered looking that direction. No one would be coming that way...and yet after my running and him putting on his brakes, he only missed me by 10-15 feet.

As we travel along life's journey we must constantly be aware of temptations and dangers. Harm can come from many directions, even the wrong one.

Be cautious and alert! Travel with carefulness.

Have a good day!
Love,
Dad


Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,
(1 Peter 5:8)

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
(Mark 14:38)

There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.
(1 Corinthians 10:13)

Slow Down

Often times in life's journey, we must slow down from our normal fast pace. There are times when it seems that we're not progressing at all. We have difficulty comprehending certain classroom courses or solving some complex life decision.

There is nothing wrong with slow, cautious travel as long as we are still approaching our goals. Never give up and totally stop.

"Everything comes to him who waits, if he works while he waits."

Have a good day!
Love,
Dad


"'I called Him, but He gave me no answer' Canticles 5:6 [Song of Soloman]

Prayer sometimes tarrieth, like a petitioner at the gate, until the King comes forth to fill her bosom with the blessings which she seeketh. The Lord, when He hath given great faith, has been known to try it by long delayings. He has suffered his servants' voices to echo in their ears as from a brazen sky. They have knocked at the golden gate, but it has remained immovable, as though it were rusted upon its hinges. Like Jeremiah, they have cried, 'Thou has covered Thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.' Thus have true saints continued long in patient waiting without reply, not because their prayers were not vehement, nor because they were unaccepted, but because it so pleased Him who is a Sovereign, and who gives according to His own pleasure. If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own! Beggars must not be choosers either as to time, place, or form. But we must be careful not to take delays in prayer for denials: God's long-dated bills will be punctually honoured; we must not suffer Satan to shake our confidence in the God of truth by pointing to our unanswered prayers. Unanswered petitions are not unheard. God keeps a file for our prayers-they are not blown away by the wind, they are treasured in the King's archives. There is a registry in the court of heaven wherein every prayer is recorded. Tried believer, thy Lord hath a tear-bottle in which the costly drops of sacred grief are put away, and a book in which the holy groanings are numbered. By-and-by, thy suit shall prevail. Canst thou not be content to wait a little? Will not thy Lord's time be better than thy time? By-and-by He will comfortably appear, to thy soul's joy, and make thee put away the sackcloth and ashes of long waiting, and put on the scarlet and fine linen of full fruition."
Spurgeon's "Morning and Evening" March 29