The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Ezra 1:1, 10, “Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he sent a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing… For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the LORD, and to practice it, and to teach His statutes and ordinances in Israel.”

The circumstances of life are anything but circumstantial. The LORD affected King Cyrus, using Jeremiah to spread His Word. At the same time, He used Ezra to teach His Word to the nation of Israel.

Right now, as you are reading this letter, He is using it to instruct you in preparation for reaching someone else. That “someone else” is also being prepared to respond to your teaching, just as another is being prepared to reach yet another – and so, the cycle goes on and on.

What is the LORD preparing you to do? He wants your life and mine to reflect His Life in every possible way. There’s a song that reflects all of this:

“Turn your eyes upon Jesus;
Look full in His wonderful face;
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim
In the light of His glory and grace.”

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas,
United States of America

“We will never know that Christ is all we need
until He becomes all that we have.”
– Corrie ten Boom