The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Psalm 97:10-12, “Hate evil, you who love the LORD,

Who preserves the souls of His godly ones;

He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

11 Light is sown like seed for the righteous,

And gladness for the upright in heart.

12 Be glad in the LORD, you righteous ones;

And give thanks to His holy name.”

As I read this psalm this morning, I was mystified

by the statement that “Light is sown like seed

for the righteous.” Sowing see is not mysterious,

but sowing light certainly is! The Hebrew word

for “sow” ) ?????zara( means “to scatter.” Ah,

that gives some light on that word! Evil is always

signified by darkness. So, when we hate evil, the

LORD scatters light in our pathway, enabling us

to escape evil and live righteously and in gladness.

Think of how many times your reach for a light to

give understanding of where something is. We

would fall down stairs, run into walls, bump into

objects that are out of place unless we have light.

It’s virtually impossible to do anything without light.

Revelation 22:5 sums up everything having to do

with light when it says,

“And there shall no longer be any night; and they

shall not have need of the light of a lamp nor the

light of the sun, because the Lord God shall illumine

them; and they shall reign forever and ever.”

Surely, that’s reason enough for us to rejoice!

But living in His Light now will make our rejoicing

then even more glorious!

We pray for our LORD’s light on each of your lives,

Nana & Dado III

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas

“We never know that God is all we need

until He becomes all that we have.”