On this Thanksgiving Eve my heart is full as I consider the wonderful things the Lord has done!! Today we learned that Jenkins received his visa so our children will be homebound together and they are flying into Dulles...how kind of the Lord to work out alll these details...His ways are truly better than what we could have asked or imagined-great is His faithfulness. We still don't have the specific details but the children are leaving Monrovia, Liberia on Sunday evening with an escort from AOH and arriving in the US sometime on Monday...I promise to post once we know more :)
Our childrens' homecoming is only a smidgen of what I have to be grateful for...I read this on another blog today and thought I would post it here...it is a quote by Charles Spurgeon and it rings so true...
The fear of a man who really knows the love and goodness of God, will be somewhat of this kind: He will fear lest he should really be, or should seem to be, ungrateful. 'What' he asks, 'can I do? I am drowned in mercy. It is not as though my ship were sailing in a sea of mercy; I have been so loaded with the favour of the Lord that my vessel has gone right down, and the ocean of God’s love and mercy has rolled right over the masthead. What can I do O Lord? If thou had given me only a little mercy, I might have done something, in return, to express my gratitude. But oh! Thy great mercy in electing me, in redeeming me, in converting me, and in preserving me, and in all the goodness of thy providence toward me;--what can I do in return for all these favour? I feel struck dumb; and I am afraid, lest I should have a dumb heart as well as a dumb tongue; I fear lest I should grieve Thee by anything that looks like ingratitude.”
Happy Thanksgiving from a grateful heart loaded with the favour of the Lord and drowning in the sea of His rich mercies!!
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