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Daily Message #2

Mornings With Jesus

​Today We Invite You to Rediscover Forgotten Treasures
Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.
—Luke 12:6 (NIV)

Time to Think
"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."
—W.B. Yeats

Time to Act
Thank God for the reminder that everything has a purpose, no matter how forgotten it may seem.

Time to Pray
Dear Lord, teach me to approach each moment, each thing, and each person with gratitude for the purpose You’ve built into everything.


Walking in Grace
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
—Psalm 119:105 (NRSV)

We didn’t know quite what to do with it. The immense old Bible had been in Carol’s family for generations. From the inscription in front, it seems to have been her great-great-great-grandmother’s. “This book belongs to Rebecca Moon,” faded-ink writing proclaims. The pages are yellow, the leather cover fragile, the words in an ancient font. The woodcut illustrations are fetching, but the commentary is woefully out of date, and the whole thing is too heavy to put in your lap. 
 
It’s hard to tell if anybody ever did pore over its pages. You don’t see any underlining or check marks on favorite passages, no dog-eared pages. But then you wouldn’t really want to mess with a book like this. Too grand, too precious. I confess that we did what others have probably done with the old book for generations: Put it on a shelf and let it gather dust. 
 
Until the other day when I was working from home and was looking for something to stack under my computer so that I could type standing up. Hmmm, I wonder if that old Bible will do. I took it down, dusted it off, put it upright, and rested my laptop on top. Perfect. Sturdy as a rock and just the right height. 
 
I had to smile to myself. We talk about leaning on Scripture. Here I was—quite literally—writing on top of it. It made me think that the ease with which we can access Scripture is something we take entirely too much for granted. Struggling for a verse, I can find it on my phone, my Kindle, or any one of several copies on my desk. Maybe we’d treasure it more if it were just like this, too precious for words. 
 
May I always be guided by knowledge of Your Word.  
 
—Rick Hamlin 

 Digging Deeper: Isaiah 40:8; Matthew 24:35; 2 Timothy 3:16​

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