Thursday May 23, 2019

Rubiaes to Valença, Portugal—Day 8; 31,196 steps

Proverbs 8

v. 22, 26, 30-31 The Lord possessed [wisdom] at the beginning of his work…before he made the world or its fields or any of the dust of the earth….  I [wisdom] was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in his presence, rejoicing in his whole world and delighting in mankind.  But in me?  I was having a miserable day and no one was delighting in me.  I didn’t sleep well and everything hurt, including the scrape on my shin I got trying to climb into my bunk which had nothing I could grasp to stay balanced and pull myself up.  And we had how far to go before we stopped?  I was pretty cranky all day.  Was it because this morning I was not listening to the Lord and waiting at his doorway (v. 34)?  Dear Jesus, please forgive me.  Help me to remember you are where I find my life.

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Wednesday May 22, 2019

Ponte de Lima to Rubiaes, Portugal—Day 7; ca. 32,000 steps

Proverbs 7 v. 2-3  Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.  Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.  Our Lord’s commands bring life and it is good to have them close.  But the whole Bible is interwoven with God’s commands.  How can we remember them all?  Jesus made it simple:  “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your mind and with all your soul and with all your strength.  And love your neighbor as much as you love yourself” (Mark 12:30-31).  Just follow these two rules and we will have accomplished all that God requires.  So simple to remember but hard to live out!  Dear Lord, help us to worship you more deeply and to love those you put around us more truly.

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