Crushing Events 9/6&12/17

06 & 12 September 2017 – Crushing Event Turned Out for Better – Manna by Dorothy

As for the news Tony is finally home as of September 11^th, 2017.  I was planning to send this Manna last Sept. 6^th, saying that Doctor was going to sign the discharged by Friday, Sept. 8^th and that Tony would be coming home on Sept. 11^th on Monday. 

But I thought I would hold this until today is Sept. 12^th, when I am finally at my laptop while Tony is resting in his power chair.  He is doing alright, but somehow he felt a little weak. He wasn’t eating good lately so now he’s home and I pray that eating right and routine exercise will finally build him up.  So I’m thankful for your prayer. 

This part of Manna was saved from Sept. 6^th. I was reading the story about Warren Buffet, the financial expert, one of the richest people in the world, was rejected by Harvard’s Business School at age 19. After he failed his admissions interview, he remembered a “feeling of dread,” because he was concern about his father’s reaction to his failure.  Looking back, Buffet says, “[Everything] in my life . . . that I thought was a ‘crushing event’ at the time has turned out for the better.”

I like to continue the devotion written by Jennifer Benson Schuldt, the Daily Bread. “Rejection, though undeniably painful, does not have to hold us back from accomplishing what God wants us to do. The citizens of Jesus’ hometown denied that He was the Messiah (John 1:11, “[Jesus] He came to His own [people], and His own [people] did not receive [accept] Him.”)

“Many of His followers rejected Him (John 6:66, From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.)  Just as Jesus’ rejection was part of God’s plan for His Son (Isaiah 53:3, He was hated and rejected by people . . . NCV), so was Jesus’ continued ministry.

“Enduring earthly rejection and knowing that the Father would turn away from Him at Calvary (Matt. 27:46), Jesus went on to cure the sick, cast out demons, and preach good news to the people. Before His crucifixion, Jesus said, “[Father], I have finished the work which You have given Me to do” (John 17:4).

“If rejection has become a hindrance to the work of God has given you to do, don’t give up.  Remember that Jesus understands, and those who come to Him will always be accept by Him (John 6:37).  [End of Jennifer’s writing on Daily Bread Devotion].

Dorothy: What impressed me was about this story of Warren and his crushing event. And that Jesus’ rejection was part of God’s plan for His Son.  I just felt like God was speaking to me about the “crushing event at the time has turned out for the better.” What Tony went through “crushing event since April 13^th, he fell and broke his hip, and that his surgery for hip replacement will become better for him.”

As for me, day by day, I see a miracle of improvement or Tony.  The word from the Lord means a lot to help Tony and me see that it was part of God’s plan and that we are to trust in Him in all we do.  We continue to believe in miracle day by day. [End] 

As of Sept. 12, 2017, I’m seeing on TV all the latest news about the Hurriance Irma has caused a lot of damaged in Florida.  I’m not sure how this subject of the “crushing events turned out for better” in this kind of situation.  I still need to believe that God is trying to reach people to turn to Him constantly and believing in miracles that is greatly needed right now. My heart goes to them and constantly praying that God will do wonders. “What is impossible for men, are possible for God,” Jesus quoted this. So I am holding on to this verse of Jesus’ words for me, Tony and for all of us.