9-8-2019

Good Morning All,

   Psalm 119:105; “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”
    I am somewhat adventurous in my travels (I have had a few adventures in the Black Hills) but not much of a navigator in a large city. By the time I figure out which lane I am supposed to be in I am in the wrong one and headed for places or parts unknown.  Now, that isn’t always bad, some of lives best adventures are mistakes in planning but when you have a vehicle full of people looking to get to a ball park on time and you are driving in some guy’s soybean field; it is time to get back to the right road. 

    So, we now use a GPS.  It is supposed to know what we are looking for and for the most part it does.  It occasionally tells me to turn around, but not very much or that I am going the wrong way but it does make seeking out the spots we want to go to a little easier to find.  You have to trust it a little so we do.  Once, in St. Paul, we found a really neat park and the GPS took us right to it.  Then when we were ready to go home; it took us right back to the hotel.  If we would have had to “wing it”; we would have had an adventurous day but maybe not at the park. 

    In our verse, we learn an important trait about God.  God is our light and our lamp.  Yet when Adam sinned, we lost the light.  We try to hide from God because we do not want the light.  Adam hid.  God knew where Adam was; Adam couldn’t hide.  Yet God went seeking him and God seeks you as well.  God does not sit back, withdrawn from the world; rather He is actively seeking us out with his grace and mercy.  This often goes missing in the world.  People think they have to go to God.  People think that they have to make a conscience decision to find God.  The truth is that God is seeking them and has been for longer than they even know. 

    God’s redemptive action in this world is alive and going strong.  God is actively seeking out all the lost and hurt.  We see this most clearly in the life, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus.  Here we see God, in flesh, seeking out the hurt, the lost and the suffering in order to redeem them.  We see the same today in the activity of the Holy Spirit.  He calls, gathers, enlightens the whole Christian Church here on earth.  In all ways, God is actively seeking you to be his child.  He is constantly seeking you out with his grace, calling us out of our hiding place. 

    God provides us with His word to remind us of the wonders that he has done and what is in store for us.  We have eternal life and the promise of being part of his holy family, a member of his chosen people.  In his mercy, God seeks you out and invites you into his wonderful kingdom of salvation.  He seeks you out to redeem you and to give you hope and to give you comfort.  He gives us his word so that we remember his great promises and points the way to our salvation.

 Dearest Father, you seek out those whom you love.  You bring us into your loving arms protecting us from the devil’s attack.  Keep us, and all the faithful, safe in your house.  In Jesus’ precious name we pray.  Amen.

God’s Peace,

Pastor Bret