October 13th

October 13th

Read: Exodus 15:22-27; Psalm 55:16,17,22; Matthew 11:28-30

It is wonderful how our God can take the bitter things of life, add His love, and make them sweet. Think of Hannah, Samuel’s mother. God turned her bitter sorrow into the sweetness of a baby boy when she turned to Him (1 Sam. 1:1-20). Naomi’s bitterness was sweetened, too, through Ruth, her daughter-in-law. (Ruth 1:20-21).

I lost my first baby when she was thirty hours old. The doctors thought my kidneys were permanently damaged and that I would not be able to bring another pregnancy to term. I turned to the Lord, trusted Him (not the doctors) and bore three healthy children, one when I was forty! Bitterness can be turned into sweetness by our God.

WATERS OF MARAH
When you are led to Marah’s brink
And parched soul starts to ache,
When bitter is the cup you drink
And thirst it will not slake,
O Christian, learn to cast the `tree’
So waters are made sweet
By yielding your adversity
To Jesus at His feet.

When you accept that bitter trial
As but the Father’s will,
He’ll help you meet it with a smile
And with His blessings fill;
And never will you thirsty go,
And never walk alone,
And ever will you stronger grow
When the “tree” cast is your own.

Prayer: Father, Jesus drank a bitter cup on Calvary, but You turned the result into the sweetness of salvation for sinners like me. Help me to turn to You when a bitter cup comes my way.