The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Philippians 4:4, “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!”

The Zika virus permeates the world. How on Earth do we protect

ourselves? First of all, avoid being bitten by a mosquito. We have

to be aware of the danger and cover ourselves by means made

public by the medical world. It’s not difficult to be swamped by the

evil in the world, either. Everywhere we turn, there is evidence of it.

How do we protect ourselves from the turbulence of evil? Paul says,

“Rejoice.” Good grief! Are we to rejoice that evil abounds? No, of

course not. We are to rejoice despite the avalanche of evil. To

rejoice is to “be glad.” And for what are we to be glad? First of all,

we are to be glad that we know the LORD and that He knows us.

We should rejoice that He has made His Word available to us, so

that we know what events are coming and how we are to respond.

We have been given sufficient knowledge of coming events, that

we can know with certainty that the LORD will be victorious! And

we will be victorious, too, because we are His and He protects us!

So, whatever occurs that looks bad to us, we can rejoice, knowing

that everything is in our LORD’s control. God bless each of you!

We rejoice in the LORD because of you,

Nana & Dado III

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas