Good
Morning All!!
Isaiah
41: 9b-10; “You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off”; fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your
God; I will strengthen you, I will help you”
Pick and choose. We use that phrase often. It is a phrase that we use in a frivolous
manner. We go to the fast food place and
we pick what we want to eat and then choose how to order it “my way”. It seems that we pick and choose on every
whim. This makes our picking and our
choosing very shallow and without much thought or plan.
When you are choosing pizza toppings, being
shallow isn’t that big of a deal. If you
are picking which movie to go to, you can choose on a whim. Yet we seem to carry this attitude over into
our more personal and more important areas of our lives. We seem to have made making choices something
which has no bearing or consequences in or to our lives.
We choose to be married and then
unmarried. We choose to love someone
today but tomorrow we choose to not love someone. Some days we choose to talk but others we
choose to fight. I think the one thing
that amazes me the most is that we choose to not show respect for other
people. We choose to not show simple
human decency. With the election cycle
getting hot and heavy, it seems the theory is to attack. Why can’t we talk without calling each other
idiots, morons, thugs, Nazis, communists and other names I won’t write? When did we choose to hate?
For the most part, we have always elected
to hate. This fact is why so often, when
we get to the end of the day, we look in the mirror and ask (or tweet or post)
the question; why did I get up this morning?
Why do I go about this day only to be beaten down by the world whether
the world took the form of a boss or a coworker, a spouse or a child, a teacher
or a student? Everyone chose to dump on
me and then bale on me. The devil loves
for you to think this.
Yet God tells us something completely
different. God chose you to be his
child. At the end of the day (and the
start and the middle) you are God’s redeemed child and he will never forsake
you. When all the world chooses to walk
all over you, God chooses to love you.
When we experience the painful events of our lives, it is when we feel
that we can handle it by ourselves that we suffer the most pain. The weight of the world is on our back and
Jesus tells us to come to him and let him carry the load. We don’t need to fear the worst for God
promises his best; eternal life with him.
As difficult as it is, this world and life
is not all there is for us. This time,
our earthly life, is but a minor spot in a life that we will live. We need to trust God and accept his ways as
true. God has chosen you; he has chosen
to give you life; hold on to that promise for that is our hope.
Dear Father in heaven, we give you thanks for the gift of
life. Father you chose us and give us
faith to choose you. Show us the path by
which we will choose to love one another and to hold onto one another and value
one another with the love which you have for us. In the precious name of Jesus we pray,
amen
God’s
Peace,
Pastor
Bret
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