My wife’s younger brother had a pretty major surgery yesterday. I had a message forwarded to me last night that his son had written. It only let folks know the surgery was over and things were good. With that, I had gone to bed. This morning as I got up and sat down to start my devotions I saw I had a text on my phone. It was from my brother-in-law. It just gave a brief message that all is good. When I read it I couldn’t help but thank God for His kind thoroughness.

I had a young couple come to see me a week ago yesterday. They were distraught with one another. They have three children and are very dedicated christians, but their differences were screaming at one another. It was easy for me to see that what had originally attracted them to one another had now turned into resentment. As they came yesterday they were smiling so I asked what had taken place since last week? They had done their homework and had been focusing their attention to one another keeping “respect” as their focus. In session yesterday we did a personality profile I wanted them to complete so they could see why their differences could be God’s way for completing them, not annoying them. This proved to be very insightful for them. As they walked out of the session they expressed great thanks for God helping them to see Him again in their marriage. It makes me smile too.

God is incredibly amazing. The immensity of His being and yet the intricacies of His tender mercies never cease to humble me to tears. How fortunate we are to be able to call Him our Savior, Lord and even call Him our Friend!