Devotion Of The Day!

When you flee temptations, don't leave a forwarding address.

Velazquez Polk and Janet Kuzmaak both grew up in Portland, Oregon, but the two could not have been more different. Polk was a tough street kid who joined a gang at the age of ten and was eventually arrested for selling drugs.
Kuzmaak was an honor roll student from an upper-class neighborhood. In 1980 Kuzmaak's sister was raped and strangled to death. Authorities never found her killer. She came to regard every criminal as her sister's murderer.
Kuzmaak eventually became a nurse at a medical center. Polk, released from jail in 1990, was given a job as her surgical aide. Kuzmaak was furious. She didn't believe in rehabilitation for criminals, but she noticed that when Polk's gang member friends tried to entice him to rejoin their ranks, he refused. He told Kuzmaak he wanted to flee his old life and join a program to become a nurse's aide. She remembered that her sister had once befriended a man on parole, so she lobbied the hospital to pay Polk's tuition while she continued to monitor him.
Today, she and Polk are great friends. She helped him gain entrance into a world he once didn't know existed. He helped sweep away the bitterness that had once poisoned her heart.
Change and growth are always possible if you first turn away from evil, determined not to return.

Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness... with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

2 Timothy 2:22