#1945 Dowser in the Graveyard

#1945

Dowser in the Graveyard

Prologue/Addition Dr. Morris:

The geologists and many scientists think that there is nothing to it.  But, they did not think there was anything to the barber pole at the barber shop, showing a surgeon was available, even washing hands before surgery.  But, on the farm the dowser came in with his peach tree limb, walking a certain way and the limb-branches in his hands would turn and point towards the ground IF he were over a supply of water.  Then you dig down and you have a well.  It works, skips one generation but is in the DNA of many families.  So, like so many other things that smart people deny for centuries this has been the method for "simple-minded" people finding sources of water.  Neither can we understand the unsaved indifference and skepticism toward Jehovah God, Creator of Heaven and Earth. 

Most people I have met in my long life, even church pew warmers-even those in pulpits, have trouble explaining why bad things happen to good people or why good things happen to bad people.  They have never learned to trust God, that he is in charge.

This writer watched his mother and both grandmothers die of excruciating pain with cancer.  These women had never done anything but good for anyone, I never knew either one to use a bad word...worked hard...raised fine children...worshipped God in whom they had total belief.  Why do so many experience so much misery?  I am totally convinced that each of these wonderful women, like so many believers I have known my life, knew that mercy was their reward, that Jesus had paid it all.  If not healing here, total healing with graduation (death). 

I am convinced that most pew warmers are in love with this Earth, the things that this Earth has provided for them.  Most really do not have any desires or designs for Heaven...they just love it here.  The dowser walking through the graveyard would find that many interred there never really believed that there were better for them.  They did not believe that their citizenship was in Heaven.  (Philippians 3:20)

There are things that are etched in our minds forever; I will never forget the night that our barn burned...my hardworking, God-fearing, taxpaying parents loosing almost everything.  There were other times that the crops dried up or drowned in the fields, we knew the horror of hailstones crushing our crops.  The dowser walking over the graves of such people as this, not just my family but many others whom I have known, would point down at graves where just worn out remains are kept...their souls are in a much better place...forever peace and joy.  There is nothing on this Earth, the things of this Earth, even loved ones on this Earth that would lure them back to it.

Today's Puritan AUDIO Devotional:

Spurgeon's 'Morning by Morning' for March 4
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Father knows best!

(Charles Spurgeon)

"Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away--may the name of the LORD be praised!" Job 1:21

"Shall we accept good from God--and not trouble?" Job 2:10 

Let the Lord do as He wills to us! He will never be unkind to us! He has always been our friend--He will never be our foe!

He will never put us into the furnace--unless He means to purge the dross out of us. Nor will there be one degree more heat in that furnace than is absolutely necessary--there will always be mercy to balance the misery--and strength supplied to support the burden to be borne.

Oh, children of God, your Father knows best! Leave everything in His hands and be at peace--for all is well.

"I was silent; I would not open my mouth--for You are the one who has done this!" Psalm 39:9 

"He is the LORD; let him do what is good in His eyes!" 1 Samuel 3:18

"Even though the fig trees have no blossoms, and there are no grapes on the vines; even though the olive crop fails, and the fields lie empty and barren;even though the flocks die in the fields, and the cattle barns are empty--yet I will rejoice in the LORD! I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!" Habakkuk 3:17-18

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