Friday, July 15th

I read this scripture:

Proverbs13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.

I read this from a book called "Cry of the Soul" in Chapter 10, and it really brought it home how God gives hope. I think about my family, wife and son, my job, and school, along with other responsiblities, and I seem to take it on with a joy in my heart. However, when I read this, it hit why that is the case. God has given me hope in situations where I think if God wasn't in my life, there would be no hope. I would be stressed (and I am stressed now) beyond recognition. In high school, actually middle school, I had ulcers. I was sickly and in despair and turning to things that I shouldn't have been and my life was in a downward spiral. Now, though, things are so much better. I know it is because I turn to God for my troubles and relax knowing that whatever happens, it is for the good of God and his kingdom. That was my nugget.