Like a cloud.

Last nights devotion from Spurgeon's Morning and Evening:

Our sins are like a cloud. Clouds are of many shapes and colors, so are our sins. As clouds obscure the light of the sun, and darken the landscape beneath, so do our sins hide the light of Jehovah's face from us and cause us to sit in the shadow of death. They are earth-born things, and rise from the miry places of our nature; and when collected so that their measure is full, they threaten us with storm and tempest. Alas! that, unlike clouds, our sins yield us no genial showers, but rather threaten to deluge us with a fiery flood of destruction. O black clouds of sin, how can there be fair weather in our souls while you remain?

Let our joyful eye dwell upon THE NOTABLE ACT of divine mercy -- "swept away." God Himself appears upon the scene, and in divine benignity, instead of manifesting His anger, reveals His grace: He at once and forever effectually removes the mischief, not by blowing away the cloud, but by erasing it from existence once for all.

Putting this into practice, let's obey THE GRACIOUS COMMAND, "return to Me." O Lord, restore us!

We live in such a wicked world where we must daily guard our hearts and run to the foot of the cross. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Together let's engage in living out our faith through love, prayer, hospitality and exercising our spiritual gifts.

"An idle mind is the devil's workshop." And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.

Missing you all, Joey:)