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Spilling my Guts

My dear friend,

As I mentioned before, God wants the glory for my deliverance from my gastrointestinal affliction.  Furthermore, in my blog post “I Believe!,” we have already seen that no doctor, no wizard, no man or woman, nor even mine own efforts have been able to lead me out of this affliction that I have now had for nearly thirty years.  Therefore, I would be amiss not to explain what specifically it is that God is delivering me from.

When my wife and I were first married, God blessed us with a new home, a new car, and He gave me a new job and promotion in my new career in IT.  We had great benefits and medical insurance through my new employer, and my wife had ample money to balance our family budget.  She could not have been happier.

God was exceedingly good to us.  We had both given Him honor in our wedding ceremony and all the events surrounding it.  Had it not been for the fact that she had been so resolute to see the fulfilment of our wedding, God would never have received all the honor and respect that was given to Him during that time.  Thus, what did God do? … He repaid us tenfold!  He is amazing!

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I Believe!

Jonah and the Whale, Pieter Lastman 1621

My dear friend,

Perhaps you are thinking to yourself that I do not cherish and love my wife, and I suspect that there are many others that are thinking the same thing.  When I published my post, “A Riddle?,” I figured that it would cause a bit of a stir, and it appears that it did.  What was I supposed to do, pull a Jonah and disobey God by running off to Tarshish?  You have heard the story before, no?

“1Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. 3But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. 4But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken. …”

“15So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging. 16Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows. 17Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.”

Jonah 1:1-4 & 1:15-17 KJV

    I would rather not attempt my circumnavigation in the belly of a fish, thank you very much!

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