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The MESSENGER
our daily bread
Two Portraits
And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you. John 16:22
Daily Devotional
(Isa. 53:4). We have a Savior who doesn’t merely know about our pain; He lived it. He knows. He cares. One day our grief will be turned into joy.
Clutching two framed photo- graphs, the proud grandmother showed them to friends in the church foyer. The first picture was of her daughter back in her home- land of Burundi. The second was of her grandson, born recently to that daughter. But the daughter wasn’t holding her newborn. She had died giving birth to him.
Lord, thank You for going to the cross for us. We certainly know trou-
A friend approached and looked at the pictures. Reflexively, she reached up and held that dear grandmother’s face in her hands. All she could say through her own tears was, “I know. I know.”
When we put our cares into His hands, He puts His peace
And she did know. Two months earlier she had buried a son.
Our Daily Bread, © 2016 by RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI
Thoughts for the WEEK
> A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
> Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
> A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
> Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.
> What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
> The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.
ble in this world, but You overcame the world and took our sin and pain for us. We look forward to the day when our sorrows will be turned into joy and we see You face to face.
into our hearts.
There’s something special about the comfort of others who have experienced our pain. They know. Just before Jesus’s arrest, He warned His disciples, “You will weep and mourn while the world rejoices.” But in the next breath He comforted them: “You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy” (John 16:20). In mere hours, the disciples would be devastat- ed by Jesus’s arrest and crucifix- ion. But their crushing grief soon turned to a joy they could not have imagined when they saw Him alive again.
Isaiah prophesied of the Mes- siah, “Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows”
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March 5, 2017