This wriggling mental path began yesterday when I picked up an eight inch night crawler from the blacktop that had been washed out of house and home by recent rains. He/she is now a productive member of my Garden's aeration crew. All you squeamish types feel free to think, "Eeuuww," as the spirit moves, at the visual of the slimy rescue by compassionate and practical Grampa Bob.Today, One Year Book of Christian History actually starts off with "it was not a fad diet." This was the authors' play on the Diet of Worms, to which Martin Luther went on April 17, 1521 to defend his books that were under scrutiny...hence the picture above. In the midst of some butterflies-in- the-stomach circumstances (butterflies/caterpillars/worms connection), Good Old Marty was able to "stand firm in the Lord and the strength of His might," making his historic statement that catalyzed The Reformation.
The second entry was from Spurgeon's Beside Still Waters where he focused on "rejoice always" and listed out a bunch of unpleasant circumstances...of which he had more than his share. I thought, "HOW?!" The Spirit tapped the inside of my head, so to speak, and said "rejoice in the Lord always, again I will say rejoice." Oh, Yeah...look at Him instead of the stuff flying off of life's ceiling fan!! ;p
Next in my throne room reading was Selwyn Hughes's Every Day Light that points out that prophets Ezekiel, Daniel, and John saw God on His Throne in times of perplexity to "remind them of whose universe it was." (I wonder if Marty L. had a similar notion while standing before Charles V?!!)
The next stop in my bibliophilic meandering...bookworm wriggling one might say...providentially planned of course...was Daily Meditations For Prayer that focused on Ephesians 4:30, "Don't grieve the Spirit" (by forgetting all of the above good stuff about Jesus in spite of your circumstances was my conclusion).
The tail end of this wormy tale was from D.L. Moody's Thoughts For The Quiet Hour, Philippians 2:13, "...for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure." Now to quote Emperor Joseph II of "Amadeus" fame, "Well...there it is!"
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