SCRIPTURE: Deuteronomy 33:25 As your days, so shall your strength be.
THOUGHT: I’ve been in the mountains for seven days now. California, Utah, Idaho, Washington, Montana and Wyoming. Real mountains. So, you will likely hear about them this week. I’ve driven about 500 miles each day and seen vast stretches of barrenness and beauty and can’t help but think of the need for strength – for pilgrims and pioneers, ancient and modern. The wildness of the mountains cannot be tamed. People try, but if they ever stop trying, the mountains win. And so, we must go with God, vaya con Dios, as my husband often says when I venture forth. God, the perpetual source of every strength, owns the well with living water as well as those mountains we must climb.
I found this quote by Charles Spurgeon this morning and loved the way he put it in this sermon from 1858:
And shall he, who created the world, grow weary? Shall he fail? Shall he break his promises for lack of strength? He hangs the world upon nothing; he fixed the pillars of heaven in silver sockets of light, and he hung the golden lamps on it, the sun and the moon; and shall he who did all this be unable to support his children? Shall he be unfaithful to his word for lack of power in his arm or strength in his will? Remember again, your God, who has promised to be your strength, is the God who upholds all things by the power of his hand.
PRAYER: When we vaya con Dios, we have strength enough for the day – not of our own, but from the very well of life. Thank you, God!
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