Jun 24: Tue not Sat

Boy, talk about scrambled up days. I woke up this morning and could have sworn it was Saturday. G

Going back into Pickens was not easy yesterday, despite God making the way smooth as possible. I was feeling depressed. Check-in was 5-star and I didn't have to wait for my room on the 6th floor. Staff is still as great as ever. Food is still hospital. God opened my eyes to His goodness.

Gracious rest and sleep last night despite waking up in a soup bowl of night sweats. Started chemo last night. My numbers had inched up to 92 yesterday. 

So many blessings since checking in. Encouraging conversations with brothers and sisters in Jesus. Prayers given and received. 

There really are 2 lenses to look at this world through. Hard to look through them both. We either look at them through God's eternal, loving lens, or our own corrupted-world distorted lens. 

It says this in Romans 1:

God’s way of putting people right shows up in the acts of faith, confirming what Scripture has said all along: “The person in right standing before God by trusting him really lives.”

But God’s angry displeasure erupts as acts of human mistrust and wrongdoing and lying accumulate, as people try to put a shroud over truth. But the basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes and there it is! By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can’t see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of his divine being. So nobody has a good excuse. What happened was this: People knew God perfectly well, but when they didn’t treat him like God, refusing to worship him, they trivialized themselves into silliness and confusion so that there was neither sense nor direction left in their lives. They pretended to know it all, but were illiterate regarding life. They traded the glory of God who holds the whole world in his hands for cheap figurines you can buy at any roadside stand.

So God said, in effect, “If that’s what you want, that’s what you get.”

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Are you getting the best of God or the "best" of your own world? 

God bless you all in the peace of His grace today.