LifeLink Devotions for Thursday, March 6, 2025

2 Samuel 15:15  And the king’s servants said to the king, “Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king decides.”

One morning several years ago I discovered a poem by A. L. Waring in my files. It was from a devotional by Frances Havergal that I had started reading.

I love to think that God appoints
My portion day by day;
Events of life are in His hand,
And I would only say,
Appoint them in Thine own good time,
And in Thine own best way..

Before I could read more of the devotional I was distracted by my computer alert which dinged to say someone had posted something new to Facebook. Of course I had to go look. It was someone who was asking for help. Her son needed a ride to school because her husband had accidently taken her car keys to work with him. They lived in the area of our church where I was in my office. I immediately responded that I could be there to do that right after I finished my devotions.

God’s appointments require man’s availability.

I returned to the devotions and read this from Frances in her old English style.

“If we are really, and always, and equally ready to do whatsoever the King appoints, all the trials and vexations arising from any change in His appointments, great or small, simply do not exist. If He appoints me to work there, shall I lament that I am not to work here? If He appoints me to wait in-doors to-day, am I to be annoyed because I am not to work out-of-doors? If I meant to write His messages this morning, shall I grumble because He sends interrupting visitors, rich or poor, to whom I am to speak the message, or “show kindness” for His sake, or at least obey His command, “Be courteous?” If all my members are really at His disposal, why should I be put out if to-day’s appointment is some simple work for my hands or errands for my feet, instead of some seemingly more important doing of head or tongue?”

Let me ask you – Are you, as His servant, ready at any time to do whatever He asks?

God’s appointments require man’s availability.

Pastor John

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