Good Thursday morning! We have two 'ones' in the temperature this morning, a big improvement over the past couple of days. I see that Grand Island had a record snowfall this week, 10". The folks around the Great Lakes are like, "Eh? That ain't no record, try three feet!" Sometimes records aren't all that impressive in a different area or circumstance. The sun is coming up! Hooray! Thinking about that Hudson's Bay low that has caused so much cold weather and snow in the U.S., I wonder what would happen if God just left it there for a year or two?
We tend to take for granted that the weather will in general be good enough to raise crops and even allow us to get outside fairly often. A big part of the coming Great Tribulation will be some odd weather events; odd, as in deadly that is. God takes care of all of humanity, though many are ignorant of the fact or refuse to acknowledge it. We hear a lot of hoopla about what man may have caused in the global warming thing, but what if God decided to make His presence known through weather once more? Notice that I like to think about this AFTER the storm system has passed on to the east? Yeah, having God withdraw his favor and send serious storms is not a comfortable thought. Thinking about it with the sun rising is much easier, even if it is still cold outside. :-)
Last night, we studied how Peter called us priests in God's service. Not the pastor, or the church organist, or one of the big televangelists on TV, but all of us. Doesn't that make you want to hold your head a bit higher and give a rousing, "Glory to God!"? We don't have to shuffle up to someone, whisper "Jesus is love", and sound the retreat for our witness. We are all of the priesthood now! No, that doesn't mean you have to be celibate.
If I'm not mistaken, Paul said that he wished all of us could be celibate like he had decided to be, not that we all need to take the vow of celibacy to serve God. People like to take things too far. A priest and his wife were the parents of John the Baptist; looks to me like God likes to have us bear children. Why would someone think that God wants all priests to be celibate? Boggles the mind that one does!
Ahh, Christmas music! If you don't have some going on the stereo (just to date myself a bit there), you should get up and get that fixed. December 10th! It's time to start the Christmas celebration in earnest! Praise the Lord that Christ is born in us!
Bucky
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