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I have enjoyed reading back through the Torah lately.   What a great, and unchanging God we serve!   How precious it is to follow Jesus’ footsteps on each page of this ancient text.    One of the many devotional thoughts that jumped out at me this time was the way God used the prayers of imperfect fallen individuals.   Think of Moses.   You know that God demonstrated His power in a unique way by plundering Egypt with the ten plagues.   But what jumped out at me this time was not the frogs, but how God used imperfect Moses, multiple times to pray for God to stay His hand.   God wanted Moses to pray in order to placate His plans for destruction in at least four out of the ten plagues.   Read the locust incident.   “Then Pharaoh hurriedly called for Moses and Aaron, and he said, ‘I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you.   Now therefore, please forgive my sin only this once, and make supplication to the LORD...

I learn so much from my children; patience, endurance, self-control, cartoons, science facts, the list could go on and on.   But there is another stream of lessons that I enjoy even more.   These lessons spring from the mirror of correspondence between my relationship with my children and my relationship with my heavenly Father.   These lessons humble me almost daily. Let me share one simple lesson with you.   Asher is three and everything is a race to him.   “Race you to the door.   Race you to the car.   Race you to the table, ha-ha, I win!”   Asher is teaching both me and our neighbors in our apartment building patience by his love of racing.   You see, he is not yet a good loser or a good winner.   So even if it is a small race, there may be a noisy melt-down if he loses to me or to one of his sisters.   Our sixth floor hallway is often echoing with the screams of a losing racer because he is emotionally involved in ever...