Untitled Lament

I think I have mentioned before how most days I feel like I'm treading through ankle deep mud. Today I have been wading through vomit. Baby vomit. The boys have picked up whatever the girl had, but they've been sick since this weekend and also have diarrhea. I will be giving the dr. a call tomorrow. They keep pretending to get better, then after eating perfectly fine all day, I get a lap full of partially digested formula. The fevers have abated, but their other symptoms have not.

I do seriously feel as though I am under attack from you know who. I read this yesterday about the enemy's attacks from Priscilla Van Sutphin

He will attack every relationship trying to bring division between people. He will try to discredit you in the eyes of others. He will try to keep you sleepless so you get tired and run down. He’s send pestilence so that you have to get busy cleaning up the mess from that. He will do ANYTHING HE can when you are supposed to be intimate with HIM, to try and destroy your time with GOD. You may thing those little irritations are just coincidence. THEY ARE NOT ! They are to test your peace, and steal your joy, and to try to make you tired so you don’t have energy to do the will of God, or to be intimate with Him, then he will unmercilessly attack you for NOT doing those things, trying to condemn you. (for the full thing click here)

Apart from the viral pestilence, we've had another ant invasion(I do take responsibility for the crumbs on the floor, but not for the drought). I found a different type of ant bait that came highly recommended and we've had a steady stream of ants for 2 days. Apparently word has spread among the colonies that there's good eating. I feel a little like a mass murderer seeing all these tiny little ants scurrying like they've found the mother lode, but ants do not belong in my house.

So anyway, Priscilla's word really caught my attention.

All I can say is my novel better sell really well to make up for all the crap I've had to go through every time I start making progress. --But as splicat always reminds me--

James 1:2-4:
2Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,
3knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
4And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete lacking in nothing.

On another subject--I was reading my Bible the other day and doing the random flip and stopped at Jeremiah 10 and came across this verse:

Jeremiah 10:12 But God made the earth by his power, he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

First of all I am still astounded that I come across wisdom and understanding everywhere I turn since this is what I am writing about. But this verse really caught me off guard. How did He "stretch out the heavens by his understanding?" I just couldn't make it make sense. So I did a little research into the language of the verse and found in Strong's that there were several meanings for the original word--(here's the full entry)

understanding, intelligence
the act of understanding
skill
the faculty of understanding
intelligence, understanding, insight
the object of knowledge
teacher (personification)

The word skill suddenly leapt at me. And when I looked up other scriptures with this word, many of them were describing the artisans God appointed to build the temple or others skilled in some sort of creative craft.

Therefore, we see that he stretched out the heavens by his skill. It gave me a picture of God as an artist carefully crafting the universe.

What really amazes me is that he has given me full access to The Spirit of Understanding(Isaiah 11:2) through the blood of Jesus. I John 5:20 We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true—even in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

So, anyway, this is a little of what I've been thinking about. There's a lot more to it, but I just realized it is late, and I should try to get some sleep.

Please keep lifting up my family in prayer. You have no idea how much I appreciate it.