Good Morning Everyone,
Our theme for this month: “Trusting God”
Our Bible verse for today: “Look, I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go. I will bring you back to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you. Genesis 28:15 (HCSB)
Our thought for today: “You can trust God”
Jerry Bridges is the author of the best selling book “Trusting God Even When Life Hurts”. The same month he finished the manuscript for that book and sent it to his publisher (December 1987) he also learned that his wife Eleanor had an aggressive and advanced form of cancer. Over the next eleven months, as his book about trusting God was going through the final editing process, was published, and began to sell well, he sat by his wife’s side as she slowly died.
It’s been more than twenty-five years since “Trusting God Even When Life Hurts” was published and since Eleanor died. Recently Jerry wrote, “Eleanor’s death was only the first of many difficult and sometimes painful experiences I encountered in those years, and I can testify that the biblical truths I wrote about in 1987 are indeed true. We can trust God even when life hurts.”
Throughout this coming month we will explore the great Biblical truth God expressed to Jacob in Genesis 28:15 and which Jerry learned firsthand through his own times of pain and trials – we can indeed trust God. He is with us, He watches over us, and He will get us through whatever it is we are facing.
Here’s a great Biblical truth you can take with you into the day today: “You can trust God. There is nothing you will face today that you can’t deal with, because He will be right there helping you through it.”
God Bless,
Pastor Jim
Oak Hill Baptist Church 