God's Grace - Debbie Isaacs

A New Year is upon us! Can you believe the year we have been through and the year we are going into. Everything points to the coming of Christ in the air for His saints and we must be excited and keep looking up!
The story I’m about to tell is a true story. I pray it will affect your heart and teach us about the WILL of God. In June 1977 a baby boy was born into our household and we named him Jeremy. He was a big buster of a baby dearly loved and wanted. 1978 another baby boy was born in Iowa who was also loved and wanted named Kyle. In the process of time these young men grew up and each decided to go to a Bible college in Pensacola, Florida and became roommates and the dearest of friends.

Okay you ask what so special about these two young men? Kyle was studying for missions and Jeremy double majored in marketing and management. Each excelled in their fields and stepped onto life’s stage. Jeremy met and married Brenda from Pennsylvania and Kyle married his high school sweetheart and went to the mission field each being each other’s best man!

Fast forward life and you will find Kyle serving Christ. He would later watch his field of vision forcing him back stateside with his family of seven. Jeremy would take Brenda and settle back into life in he the small community he grew up in and excel in providing health care to thousands across his home state with his family of six and his church.

Now for the crutch of the story. Five years ago Jeremy was diagnosed with non Hoskins lymphoma. One year later Kyle was diagnosed with the same disease. Brenda dived into the deep end of research to keep her husband alive, Kyle’s wife walked away from him and their children leaving him to deal with raising children and battling disease. Jeremy remained in remission because of his wife and Kyle entered hospice on December 11th this year.
Now for the devotion, we may not like the things that have happened in 2020 but we must remember the will of God in each of our lives. Grace was not better in one man’s life than the other. Grace is an attribute as we except our life and position in the will of God. Grace does not make some rich and others poor. Yes, we can expect great things of our Father but we must be willing to live great lives in the Will of the Father. As a cancer survivor myself I often wondered why I am alive and another is not. Because of Christ’s will not my want. I can remember praying for death to come while in treatment but it did not come. I realized then that was God’s business not mine.
It is God’s business for us to go on. Go into 2021 with an expectation of the will of God. Grace for the will of God in our lives, in our children’s lives and nations life. God’s will not take us where the grace of God will not keep us. Selah!

Proverbs 3:5 & 6

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.