10-25-2015

 Good Morning All!!

     Habakkuk 1:5: “Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded.  For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.”

     How many of us have ever made the statement, “Now I’ve seen everything!!”  What the internet, the reality TV shows, the funny video TV shows, with a few hundred satellite TV stations to try and keep you occupied; we think we have seen it all.  And when we think of what there is to see, it is really fascinating.  We can watch a squirrel water ski.  We can see dancing babies.  There is an internet site which lets you choose from watching a goldfish, a crackling fire, clouds going by or children at play all day long 24 hours a day.  And this is just the stuff we want to watch; this doesn’t account for the things people do that I really do not want to see.  We live at a time when we think we have seen and experienced everything.  Yet how can we keep saying that “we’ve seen everything” over and over?

    In our Bible verse, God is telling the people of Israel that they not only have not seen everything yet; they wouldn’t believe it even if God had told them in advance what was going to happen.  The people were crying for justice and they saw no way they would ever achieve it but God delivered justice in a way that they did not understand.

    The really amazing thing about this verse is that God is working today in our lives and in our world in a way that He did tell us about and many still don’t believe.  It started when God sent His Spirit to His people, to his Church.  God works through His Church.  God works in amazing ways through His Church.  This is how God chooses to work in the world today through His Spirit infused redeemed children.  We are God’s hands; we are God’s masks.  We are the way which God makes miracles happen.  When we comfort friends, we when we help neighbors, when we help those who cannot help themselves, God is at work. 

    We keep working for the Lord, serving Him in all ways right up until the time when we will have seen everything.  When Jesus returns in all His glory and every knee will bow and every mouth will confess that Jesus is Lord then we will have seen everything.  Today we live at a time when we are living under God’s grace and are approaching the time of God’s glory.  For grace is glory begun and glory is grace completed.  We celebrate God’s wonderful gifts and his glorious promise.  God is doing a work in our day that many will not believe.  But for us, those who have faith and trust in the promise of our salvation; it will provide a glorious end to a grace filled life and God even told us so.

Father of all goodness, your works are truly wondrous and astonishing.  Give us the surety of your love and the certainty of the hope of salvation.  Lead us to be those who live those wondrous lives of grace; touching those whom you seek to save and giving comfort to those who need it the most.  To You be all honor and glory!!  In Jesus’ name we pray.  Amen

God’s Peace,

Pastor Bret