OK, I don't have my sermon notes out (they're in my bible cover in the car), but I just wanted to let you know I learned a great lesson in church this morning. Paul and Silas were thrown into JAIL and we're not talking the ones that are like hotels for criminals either. They were probably sitting on dirt (possibly mud) floors with their feet in stocks because of their witnessing for Christ, but they didn't go "woe is me." No, they began to pray and sing and praise the Lord. You know what God did, he sent and earthquake. It caused all the prisoners to be loosed from the things that bound them and just before one of the guards was going to kill himself (he'd be put to death if he let even on prisoner go on his watch), Paul said stop, we're all here. This gave him the opportunity to lead this jailor to the Lord! OK, so basically what I learned is that anything bad in life can be related to the situation Paul and Silas found themselves in. The thing is, they didn't grumble and get down, they looked to the Lord, took their place in the heavenlies (that's in Ephesians I think) and through their testimony the jailor and his family were led to Christ.
Now, to me, I have a lot of "down" days. I have been a pessimist for as long as I can remember and like I've said I am on Zoloft now for depression. So anyway, I seem to be focusing a lot on my problems and not enough on THE ANSWER. So what I'm going to do is read my bible more, pray more (which some days I don't even pray at all), and listen to and sing Christian songs and hymns. There are some really great ones out there too. There is one that is considered a praise song that just totally fits where I'm at right now. I am trying to find it right now so I can post it here. It's taking forever and I know my mom has the song from a lyrics website. Ugh, I was planning on going to bed early, but man if I couldn't find this thing. If I don't find it in a couple of minutes I'm giving up and emailing mom, then I'll post it tomorrow or something.
Oh well, for 45 minutes I've been searching and nothing. I don't know what it's called but it just speaks to me. Ok, so I've given up, now nearly an hour after I began looking and still nothing. Anyway, I'll email mom and have her send me her lyrics site so I can post them. You'll really love the song and if you listen to Christian radio at all I know you've heard it.
God bless, Jo
