Good Monday morning! A headline this morning reads: "worshippers thankful that river is cresting." By now, most everyone, even a few hermits, knows that some areas have suffered serious flooding in the past couple of weeks or more. What can we learn from this short headline? For one thing this group of people is worshipping, even during a flood that disrupts their lives and may leave some or all of them without a home. Even more than that, they are thankful for something. I suspect, although I did not read the article, that they are thankful for much more than just the river cresting. That should be the story or our lives in Christ. Worshipful and thankful as we spread the Good News of salvation through Christ Jesus.
Why did I add the Good News part in? There are other groups of people in that same place who are thankful that the river is cresting, but these people do not believe in Jesus. There may even be other groups of worshiping folks in that area, but those folks may not be worshipping God. Our Christian walk should not, cannot, include only the parts we like. We are called to be thankful for the difficult times as well as the good times. In other words we are grateful during the flood as well as the aftermath when all is cleaned up and the flood only a memory. I am not trying to say that we must be thankful for the disasters that come along in our lives. It would be hard to feel gratitude for a flood that kills and destroys, but at the same time we can feel gratitude for life, for the love of Jesus, and that God will always see us through the tough times.
Independence Day is almost here and that means the wheat harvest will soon be upon us in these parts. Please pray for good weather during this critical time for the farmers. By now you will have realized that high prices for wheat and corn affect us all, praying for a good crop is to your and my advantage too!
Sing a song of praise for the new week!
Bucky
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