Good Tuesday morning! Wow, where did Monday go? A busy day can go by very quickly. Today marks the start of the latter half of 2008...yes, already. Today let us decide to go back; we'll count back to January 1, 2008. No, we cannot really do that. We can count the days on the calendar however we wish, but that will not change the date of Jesus' arrival. In our lives we could choose to reach 40 or 50 years of age and start counting back toward 0. However, we know that will not change our physical age no matter how big are the birthday parties we hold. In our lives we sometimes reach a point where we start to lean backward. We might yearn for things that we owned back in the day, or we might want to make contact with people who have since passed out of our lives. This is not to speak against reunions, quite the contrary! There is nothing better than a class reunion to make one realize just how far you have come in life, and how far apart you have grown from your classmates. In this life we sometimes value that which we have already held or seen. It can be comforting to read a book over again; we already know the ending and expect no surprises. Jesus calls us to live a new life, and like reading a new book that life may, and probably will, be full of surprises. You or I may find that trying to buy something we once owned will not bring back the same feelings from that prior time in our lives. You and I have been changed in Christ Jesus, we do not need those old things! Our new path is with and following Jesus; the road lies ahead and not behind. Follow the new path and leave behind the things of the past.
Let the glory of the Lord shine on us today!
Bucky
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