The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Psalm 143:7-9, “Answer me quickly, O LORD, my spirit fails; Do not hide Thy face from me, Lest I become like those who go down to the pit.

8 Let me hear Thy lovingkindness in the morning; For I trust in Thee; Teach me the way in which I should walk; For to Thee I lift up my soul.

9 Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies; I take refuge in Thee.”

Have you ever gotten up in the morning and simply not wanted to go to work? It wasn’t the work itself that you hated; it was the workers. Actually, it was only one. You’ve tried to like your fellow-workers, and even gone out of your way to be friendly, but nothing seemed to smother the “cheap shots” that they delighted to take at you all throughout the day.

That’s something of what I understand to have been the psalmist’s trouble. He had to work. It was his only way of maintaining a livelihood. It he just didn’t have to endure the hatred of others! His only hope is in the LORD. “Answer me quickly” before I decide not to work today. I’ll just die if I have to face the crude remarks they throw at me every day.

What would you do if you were in the psalmist’s situation? “Let me hear Your lovingkindness,” he begs of the LORD. “I trust in You,” but I don’t know whether I can hold out any longer against the rotton tounges that come against me. “Teach me the way in which I should walk.” Let your Holy Spirit work within me and produce Your Love. “Lift up my soul. Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies” –from those who hate and despise me.

Okay, LORD, I’m going to work now, and “I am taking refuge in You.” I can’t dealt with hateful people, but I’m trusting You to lift me up and help me to rise above the wrong that I face.

Very often we all encounter what the psalmist encountered. Yet, the LORD is greater than

those who rise up against us. Whatever we face –even a job that requires more than we are mentally able to give— the LORD is our refuge and strength. Let Him be that to you. Meditate on His Word. Think of the humiliation He encountered; yet “He opened not His mouth.” In the end, He was triumphant. And so it will be with you! Trust Him!!

We love and pray for you,

Nana & Dado III

(Rose Marie & Gene)

P. S. Please remember Rose Marie as she undergoes a bone density biopsy on Monday.

She had one previously, about a year ago. Done in the doctor’s office. No anesthesia.

It’s just that she’s been through so much in the last six months. God bless you!

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas 72764

United States of America

“We never know that God is all we need

until He becomes all that we have.”