Good
Morning All,
Galatians 5:25; “If we live
by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.”
A little boy was sound asleep in his bed when his mother came up to wake
him. “Get up Timmy; it is time to go to
school.” The little boy woke up and
looked at his mother in total amazement; “you mean I got to keep going, I
thought I learned it all yesterday!”
There are many times in our lives when we may feel the same way; I
thought I did that yesterday. You mean I
have to do it again tomorrow and the next day as well? Sometimes we feel like little Timmy; we just
want to roll over and go back to sleep.
Sometimes we may even feel that way in our faith life. Yet Scriptures tells us something a little
different. Our faith life is a process
not an event. It is not even a series of
events. It is a lifetime journey that
never stops or takes a break or time off.
God calls us, as his children, to a lifetime of faith. He doesn’t want us to schedule our
faith. On Fridays I will have
compassion, on Mondays I will have joy, on Tuesday I will love but I get Wednesdays
and every other weekend off; that is not what a life of faith means. A life of faith is a continual process of God’s
mercy alive and active in our heart and in our life.
This helps us when we don’t “feel” like we are loved or that we are
close to God. Faith is not dependent
upon your feeling. God’s mercy is not
dependent upon your feeling. God’s mercy
is dependent on God. God’s grace is
dependent on God; neither depends upon us.
We have God’s promise to never abandon us or stray from us or to leave
us alone. We can always trust and know
that this is true even if we don’t “feel” like it. We have God’s sacred oath on this.
So God encourages us and desires for us that we live each day in total
communion with Him and that we live each day in faith with Him. Will we always succeed? No, we will slip and fall once in a while but
we are to struggle onward, seeking his grace and knowing that His mercy is
always there for us. Yet God encourages
us to live each day in faith for Him and in service to Him. It is not to be a once in a while event but a
continual process of living in prayerful conversation with Him. We are to continually live out our life in
the compassionate and loving service that God desires us to live. It is through the Holy Spirit that God gives
us the strength to live this faith filled process.
There will be slips and falls along the way but the journey goes on and
God grace is continually poured out upon your whole body and soul. He daily restores us by his forgiveness so
that we may continue our journey, freed from the slavery of sin and the devil;
to live a new life in Him.
Gracious
Lord, you are the shepherd who leads me down the path of righteousness. Keep me in your flock that I may all the day
long serve you. Guide me by your grace
and favor to be the child that you desire me to be. Show me your ways and pour out your Spirit in
my life that I may boldly walk the path that you have laid out for me. In the precious name of Jesus we pray, amen.
God’s Peace,
Pastor Bret
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