Sorry I missed last week. I've been busier these days now that I'm working for the holiday season.
Anyway, today I wanted to tell you about what I learned this morning in my devotions. It's a truth most of us know already, but it bears repeating since we so often forget things we learn. "Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for the gold where they fine [refine] it. Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone. . . The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold." Job 28:1-2,6. I read these verses this morning and alongside it I read Matthew Henry's commentary on the chapter. It really helps dig deeper into the verses, and that's where I found this quote. "As we have our food, so we have our fuel, out of the earth. There the sapphires and other gems are, and thence gold-dust is digged up. The wisdom of the Creator has placed these things, 1. Out of our sight, to teach us not to set our eyes upon them, 2. Under our feet, to teach us not to lay them in our bosoms, nor to set our hearts upon them, but to trample upon them with a holy contempt." There are precious stones, gems in this world that we value and some that are so rare. Yet they are hidden, buried away in the earth. Why? Because our God knows there is something--SOMEONE--even more valuable than those precious stones. Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." Colossians 3:1-3. Join me today in seeking those things that are above. . . eternal treasures that are of far more worth than any we could find here on earth. And now this brings me to my end-of-the-month writing update. I took a really LONG break from my writing and it took a couple weeks of indecision and starting one project and dumping another before settling on the current work-in-progress. I did something with this one that I have never done before. I am very meticulous about plotting out the story before I do it, but this time, I decided to "wing it" and with an idea of the direction I wanted the story to go, I started out yesterday and wrote 3,000 words in a little over 2 hours. All this to say, that it is going to be quite the adventure to see how this story turns out. I don't know what's going to happen next so that will certainly be fun to figure out as I go along!
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