My heart sunk this morning when I walked into the kitchen to have my husband tell me that he had some bad news. I thought he was going to tell me a cat had frozen over night. Two of them have been staying outside in the garage when we can get them there. Instead it was that the district president had been arrested and charged with a serious crime. Never in a million years would’ve I have imagined anything like this.

The whole thing serves as a strong reminder of who I do and do not want to be. I want to be a person of integrity who does not shame the name of God. “Isn’t there anyone who is righteous?”, is the question that rings through my mind. How can we be saved, how can we have knowledge of such great things, and still so grievously sin against God in such ways? How is our flesh so weak that even as children of the day we still cannot overcome it?

The devil is cunning and active. The only hope I have is that God is too, the active part. God is far more than cunning, he is all-knowing and wise. He does not turn the sinner away but welcomes him or her to his kingdom where there is freedom from slavery and heavy burdens.