Yesterday in her morning musings my sister, Brenda Lillie wrote… “Paul prayed that the Ephesians eyes would be open so they could KNOW GOD. So often we find our self lost in a sea of doubt, pain, or fear. We wonder where is God ,when will He make His entrance? In these moments it’s not that God is not there..but perhaps we don’t Know our good and faithful God well enough. Our faith is shaken not from circumstances…but lack of knowing who our God truly is and what He is capable of doing in spite of the circumstances.”

Then last night in her sermon at New Hope Assembly of God in Saugus MA my daughter, Melanie Franklin said, “We can only love one another once we love ourselves…we can only love ourselves when we know who we are…to know who we are we must look in the Word of God.”

It strikes me that most of life’s problems cease to be problems once we know who God is and who we are. In knowing those two things we gain confidence and ultimately love of God, self and others which is a power that does not fail in the midst of any circumstance (I Cor. 13:8).

In your prayer time today let me encourage you to ask God to help you and the people you are praying for to know Him better and yourself/ themselves better so that the issue being dealt with will get lost in the vast scope of God’s love.