April 5
Well I hope you all had a wonderful Easter. Here at Groveland Missionary Church we had a great Easter egg hunt on Saturday with many boys and girls from the area searching high and low for candy and prizes. And our worship service yesterday was also great. I just love the hymns about the cross and the resurrection. We do serve a mighty Savior who is alive forever more and who we will see one day face to face. I hope that Jesus’ resurrection and the celebration we were able to have this year will fill your soul with the same power that raised Jesus from the dead. While I did not include this in my sermon the wonderful verse from Romans 8:11, “And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.” We have life in these moral bodies because of the resurrection of Christ. So let’s us go live for him!
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February 8
Where there is hatred let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sadness joy.
O Divine master grant that I may
Not so much seek to be consoled as to console
To be understood, as to understand.
To be loved. as to love
For it’s in giving that we receive
And it’s in pardoning that we are pardoned
And it’s in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen“
February 1
I am not discounting foxhole conversions. There are many who come to Jesus during a crisis point in their life. I was one who confessed my sins out of fear of going to hell. And there are others who sincerely call upon God out of fear of dying. However, there are just as many who use these confessions out of a sense of manipulation to get them out of the line of fire. These are the ones I caution people about. Time and time again, we treat God as a “Get Out of Jail Free” card or even worse a “give me what I ask for” card. God is not a magical genie granting us our three wishes. He is a loving and caring God who blesses us according to his will and plan for our lives. When we abuse this love, we are not treating God as he deserves. Remember to ask for things that are according to his will not ours and we will end up better for it.