East Rockaway Nazarene

This past Tuesday we have all witnessed the harsh realities of what happens when a catastrophe hits a nation.  Haiti is experiencing a very difficult time right now.  I was speaking to someone this past week and in her daily devotions she was reading Lamentations 3, and even though Lamentations is a harsh doom and gloom book, in verse 19 it says "Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall.  My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me.  But this I call to mind, and therefore I have HOPE>  in verse 22-26  The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end;  they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.  The Lord is my portion says my soul, therefore I will hope in Him.  The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.  It is good that on should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

It is during a difficult time such as this catastrophe experienced by the Haitians, that we "wait patiently and quietly for the salvation of the Lord"  also remembering "He is our hope"

We continue to keep those who are in distress in our prayers.