The beach is great. Getting to spend time with Jen & Jake, play in the pool and even get in the ocean makes for a great vacation. I don't know how someone could look out at the ocean and not know that there is a God. The view is great, especially from the 14th floor (man this is high). The one thing I don't like about the beach is the sand, go figure. It gets all over you and you just can't get it all off. Eventually it just starts to irriate, and if you have a sunburn, well you know how that feels. Satan is a lot like the sand, he can get all over you and cause all kinds of problems. Paul said in 2 Corinthians 12:7, ...there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. That is the way sand feels to me, after a while it just torments me. The best way I know to keep the sand from irritating is to stay out of it but that is hard to do when it is all around. So what should we do? How do we keep Satan from tormenting us like the sand does to me? Ephesians 6:11 says "Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes." Basically, we are to get into God's Word. By doing that, we can keep all that irritating & tormenting stuff away.
Hope you are having a good week. See you Sunday, I'm going to the pool now (no sand there). David
