Enjoying Each Other

Monday Devotion

“God has delivered me from going down to the pit, and I shall live to enjoy the light of life.”

Job 33:28

I was on Jekyll Island, Georgia, speaking at a benefit for a pregnancy care center.  The center put me up in a beautiful resort Jacuzzi room (alas, Lisa wasn’t with me), right on the beach.  I spent the bulk of my forty-eight hours there working wanting to make full use of my time away from my family.  But the afternoon of the benefit, God seemed to call me outside.  The Lord and I went for a walk on the beach, and I had time to clear my thoughts and enjoy a quiet moment with him.

Sadly, I almost missed that walk.  I love the ocean—it reminds me of how small I am, and the wind that invariably greets me I consider a welcome companion.  But I felt so preoccupied with getting a lot done that, had it been up to me, I would have left Georgia without so much as touching a single grain of sand.  God reminded me that, though work is important, he wants us to enjoy life too.