The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Isaiah 55:8-11, “’For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Neither are your ways My ways,’

declares the LORD. 9 ‘For as the heavens are higher than the Earth,

So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

10 ‘For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,

And do not return there without watering the Earth, And making it bear and sprout,

And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; 11 So shall My word be which

goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing

what I desire, And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.’”

What do you know about things around you? How much of what has been

Humanly developed do you understand? Take Wi-Fi. We can measure its

strength; we can send instant messages to the far corners of the Earth by

using it; but how does it actually work? Do you know?

We read the Bible, but how much of it do we really understand? The LORD’s

thoughts are so much higher –more intelligent—that ours, that the greatest

thoughts we have about anything are simply childish incomparison. What

we know is what He allows us to know. Isaiah quotes the LORD as He tells us

about the rain and snow. They come to us from the LORD and they come with

a purpose. When that purpose is accomplished, the moisture returns in the

heavens from where it came, so that it can come again, as He wills.

There is a parallel of the elements with the Word of God. His Word also has

a purpose. As it is read or quoted, it penetrates the mind of man. The LORD

has created us with the ability to understand His Word. We can also reject it.

The Word is a producer of LIFE to the one who accepts it; it produces DEATH

to the one who rejects it. But that Word is never meaningless! We don’t

always know how the Word is working in those with whom we share it.

What we do know is that it is accomplishing the LORD’s purpose. And it is His

will that everyone on Planet Earth hears His Word. When we have received

Him as our LORD and Savior, He enables us to share that Word of Salvation

with others. We do this through direct witnessing, through prayer, through

supporting missionaries –through a variety of ways. But, what we do is

guaranteed to be effective and glorifying to Him! Let’s get started!!!

May the LORD bless and use you is our daily prayer,

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.”