Good Morning
All!!
Luke
15:23; “And bring the fattened calf and kill it,
and let us eat and celebrate.”
Everyone loves to celebrate. We love to join together with our family and
friends and celebrate. We love a good
birthday party; we love an anniversary party, a graduation party, a promotion
party anything that we can celebrate we will celebrate. Maybe you even have dream celebrations;
perhaps you thought of the party you would throw if you won the $1.5 billion
dollar Powerball. Maybe, somewhere in
time, you practiced your acceptance speech for an Academy Award and the awesome
party that would follow. We love to
celebrate even if it is a dream.
Scriptures is packed full of
celebrations. Our verse is form “The
Prodigal Son” and the party the father ordered when the lost son returned. We have the wedding at Cana; we have all of
the Passover meals. We have King David
celebrating when the Ark of the Covenant was brought to Jerusalem; we have the
Israelites celebrating when the Egyptians were defeated. The Bible is full of celebrating and not just
a cookie and a glass of punch; this is serious celebrating. The typical wedding feast was seven days,
every so often they were fourteen; this is sincere and honest celebrating.
Our verse tells of celebrating by killing
the fattened calf. This would have been
the highest level of celebrating like when you break out the good china or the
fancy chafing dish. This is celebration
at its highest level. So what do they
celebrate? What can possibly bring about
this level? We know what the world celebrates:
winning. The world celebrates winning
contests, ballgames, awards and adulations.
What does the Bible celebrate?
The Bible celebrates wins as well; wins for the soul and heart.
Heaven celebrates when one soul is saved;
heaven celebrates the healing of the soul.
Heaven celebrates when you rest, comfortably in God’s arms. Heaven celebrates when your faith lightens
your life for those around you. Heaven
celebrates when God’s grace wins and lifts the pained soul up and offers the
suffering spirit hope.
God celebrates with you when your
relationships are healed and you share the love with your spouse, children,
parents and friends. God celebrates with
you when you look at the challenges of life and hold onto the truth that
nothing can separate you from God’s love.
God celebrates with you when you see the devil as someone who deceives and
does not have control over you. God
celebrates with you when you call upon him and give him thanks and praise for
the blessings you. God celebrates
because of his love for you; a love greater than that of the father in our
verse. God loves you with a love that
allows you to celebrate that you have new life with him.
Gracious
Lord, in you we have everything to celebrate.
In you we feast on the finest food and the finest wine. In you we celebrate forever the most wondrous
feast of eternal salvation with you. In
your precious and loving name we pray, amen.
God’s Peace,
Pastor Bret
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