The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Psalm 73:26-28, “My flesh and my heart may fail,

But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

27 For, behold, those who are far from Thee will perish;

Thou hast destroyed all those who are unfaithful to Thee.

28 But as for me, the nearness of God is my good;

I have made the Lord God my refuge, That I may tell

of all Thy works.”

Sometimes we foolishly think we have it all together.

I can handle this. I don’t need any help from anyone.

But the Psalmist says otherwise. Those related to us

–our flesh– and we ourselves –the inner self—may

not accomplish all we believed we could. The LORD

Himself is our strength within and without. Others,

who are not His (or those who are, but are not faithful

to Him and His purpose), have been (or will be) silenced.

Note, too, that it is not our nearness to God, but His

nearness to us. The initiative is His. We are to view

the LORD as our “refuge” –our shelter in all matters.

The ultimate purpose is that we “may tell of all (His)

works.”

How often we accept compliments as if they were

deserved. It may be our extraction from a difficult

situation or something nice we received as a gift. Do

we credit the LORD with providing us such things?

Or do we smugly act as if some “powerful” friend

were responsible? Of course, the supreme gift we

have received has been salvation! It is the gift of

the LORD alone! This is His ultimate work! And

it is for this that He extracted us from peril. He

wants us to tell others of Him! Let’s get started!

Love and prayers to and for you all,

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.”