One of my children was practicing a piece of music she has to play today at a retirement home. It's a complicated piece -- very fast -- 10 pages long -- and she has been working on it since the beginning of summer. She had gotten to the point where she was playing it very well and now, for some reason, she feels she is making "hundreds of mistakes."
In God's kind providence, yesterday we changed the direction of our morning devotions to study Romans. God's timing is amazing. Today we found ourselves reading chapter 5 and we came across this passage and we all began to chuckle at the providence of God and, God's nearness to my child to provide her these verses this very morning.
Romans 5:3-5, "More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us."
