I saw one of our homeless lady friends at breakfast this morning. She sleeps outside. I noticed right away that she looked really peaceful and beautiful this morning. She struggles with addiction, and that battle is usually evident in her appearance. But not today. I went to hug her and tell her how pretty she looked. She told me that she woke up at about 3:00 a.m. and felt like she needed to read the Word.
She read Psalm 92, and then Isaiah 40, which begins like this:
“Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her
That her hard service has been completed,
That her sin has been paid for…”
and ends like this:
“… Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;
But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary,
They will walk and not be faint.”
Amen. She said that she feels God changing her, and I believe her. I can see it on her beautiful face.
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I had a vision I saw myself as a candle on God’s eternal alter. Unlike most of the other I had an off center wick and I sputtered as if a little water was left in me. I felt incomplete and weak but as the vision pulled father away, like all the other candles I added to the glory of the alter.