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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

"He has walled me in so I cannot escape;
        He has weighed me down with chains.
Even when I call out or cry for help,
       he shuts out my prayer.
          He has barred my way with blocks of stone;
                 he has made my paths crooked...
I have been deprived of peace;
       I have forgotten what prosperity is.
So I say, 'My splendor is gone
       and all that I had hoped from the LORD.'

I remember my affliction and my wandering,
       the bitterness and the gall.
I well remember them,
       and my soul is downcast within me.

Yet this I call to mind
       and therefore I have hope:

Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed,
       for his compassions never fail.

They are new every morning;
       great is your faithfulness.

I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion;
       therefore I will wait for him."


The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him,
       to the one who seeks him;

It is good to wait quietly
       for the salvation of the LORD."
Lamentations 3: 7-9, 17-26 NIV (Italics, mine)

From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
"You do not want to leave too, do you?" Jesus asked the Twelve.
 Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God."
            John 6:66-69

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