Happy Reformation Day! Happy Halloween! Happy Time Change... Ugh, what's with that last one? At least this is the 'fall-back' time change, we get an extra hour in the night from the one we stole last spring. Tomorrow is All Saint's Day as well. We also have a wedding anniversary tomorrow for my parents, Gordon and Wilda. My word, there does seem to be a lot to celebrate this weekend! Sorry about that time change thing though, not sure how that snuck into such an auspicious weekend. I suppose if we are going to have an hour longer weekend, we might as well have something to celebrate. :-)
Is This all about Me?
Yes, it is! At least when we are listening to God and He tells us: Think on Me, live for Me, trust in Me, and believe in My Son! When things look dark, God tells us to look to Him. When things look dark, we are usually caught looking at the wrong "me". We find ourselves looking at our own power, talent, time, energy, and other resources; and they just don't seem to measure up to the needs we see coming, or worse, only think we see coming. God alone knows what the future holds in all of its splendid detail. When we look to Him, we find that His grace is sufficient for all of our needs and every remotest possibility. Though we often imagine the wrong things in our anxiety, there is no possibility of sufficient horror to exceed God's strength!
Does your talent seem insufficient to the life you have been given? I find it interesting that in Jesus' parable of the talents, not one of the examples lost their investment. Not even the one bad example: who, finding his future too frightening and thinking his one talent insufficient, went out and buried that one talent until his lord returned. Of course, saying some very unflattering things to his lord upon their next meeting didn't help his cause, but he still had his talent until the lord took it away. Our investments on this earth seem to be fraught with risk. Who among us hasn't lost some of their invested funds these days? Right, those who had nothing to begin with. However, the talents given to us by Jesus cannot be lost, and everyone has something given by our Lord. Invest them, grow them, bring honor and glory to God!
My power is insufficient for most things, but God's power is great enough to create the heavens and the earth. I cannot even come to grips in my mind with the immensity of this planet we stand on. God created it from nothing! My mind fails at picturing the entire universe. God spoke it into existence. When we look to God, we see power that our minds cannot measure. We see riches beyond counting, patience without limit, joy unceasing, and an exact knowledge of the entire future, when we look to God and not our own self. Darkness becomes light when we seek the face of God; defeat becomes victory in His Son; despair turns to joy when we read of God's mighty promises, and the love of Jesus becomes more apparent in our lives with each passing day. On a day when we are expected to frighten each other with tales of the dark, we find comfort without end in our Lord Jesus. God tells us that: "Yes, it is indeed all about Me, the great I Am."
Enjoy the comfort of our risen Lord!
Bucky
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