Open hearts, Open doors

Our Daily Bread
It is interesting to me how people continue doing things in their adulthood that they started in their childhood. It is possible to change and most folks do, but some basics still remain ingrained in you.  For example, my family had a tradition of hospitality.  We opened our home to foster children for a while even though there were already four children in our family.  We almost always had folks over for holidays, folks who didn't have family or many friends.  I still enjoy having folks over on holidays!

The devotional talks about biblical the concept of hospitality is.  Very cool!  It uses the example of Paul on his journey to Corinth when Aquila and Priscilla opened their home to him.  The devotional also talked about how the word hospitality and hospital have the same Latin root -- "healing".  That is very interesting as well!

Lord, please help us offer healing through hospitality!

Psalm Sunday
Psalm 53 is the psalm for this Sunday!  This one is a little hard for me to understand, but I think I get most of it.  It mostly laments that God can't find any faithful servants left on earth, not even in Israel.  It talks about the lives of the evildoers (filled with dread).  The psalmist longs for the restoration of Israel to God.


Psalm 53

For the director of music. According to mahalath. A maskil of David.

1 The fool says in his heart,
    “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, and their ways are vile;
    there is no one who does good.
2 God looks down from heaven
    on all mankind
to see if there are any who understand,
    any who seek God.
3 Everyone has turned away, all have become corrupt;
    there is no one who does good,
    not even one.
4 Do all these evildoers know nothing?
They devour my people as though eating bread;
    they never call on God.
5 But there they are, overwhelmed with dread,
    where there was nothing to dread.
God scattered the bones of those who attacked you;
    you put them to shame, for God despised them.
6 Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!
    When God restores his people,
    let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!


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Let go, my friends!  God will be there to catch you and hold you in his loving arms!