It is Friday the 13th today…hope you’re getting through it.
Actually, I was born on Friday the 13th (in December) so I consider it a pretty good day!
It’s amazing to me that the most technologically advanced society in the world freaks out about Friday the 13th, and the number 13 in general. Most airplanes don’t have a 13th row. Most hotels don’t have a 13th floor. (They do, of course, but they’re not labeled as such!) Here’s a text I received from my son Mark a few months ago:
Chinese people consider 4 unlucky. We stayed in a “26-story” hotel in Hong Kong, except it wasn’t. There was no 4th floor, no 13th floor (to accommodate Americans!), no 14th floor, and no 24th floor.
For the LORD spoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying: “Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread. But the LORD of hosts, him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. And he will become a sanctuary… (Isaiah 8.11 – 14, ESV)
Great verse at the end! I sent it to one of my dorm daughters who is facing the last month of a high-risk pregnancy. She knows the Lord has this, but what a verse to get our perspective in the right place! Thanks!