Preface: Many years ago my wife gave me a plain flat silver pendent and a chain to go around my neck. I went out and had the words....'press on'....engraved on the back of it. If we try to just sit on a bicycle that is not moving we wind up very quickly jerking the handle bars a little this way of that way....and leaning this way or that way in the seat....just not to topple over....but start moving and it's easy to stay upright. We still only have two points of contact but those two points of contact are never in the same place....for we are adjusting them through the handle bars....if even ever so slightly. If we do not keep moving forward in our Christian walk....if we do not press on....if we try to stay in one place....we will topple over. Moving forward entails by its very essence doing something.....reading God's Word....praying constantly....examining ourselves....looking out for hazards and traps. Press on!
Tomorrow is yet another Lord's Day. These weeks are flying by for me. I said that to my wife and she looked at me like I was from outer space. There is some good coming out of this human disaster that we are living through. For one thing....our Lord's Days during this pandemic are not sports days.
I'm guessing at how many years ago this was....six or seven maybe....in one of the many conversations that I had with a good friend at work....(I've been retired for 3 1/2 years).....some of which were very serious talks....anyway in one of them....where I was expressing my thoughts on how deep the trouble that America was in....and that God was going to judge us....(you should know that he had previously in the conversation talked about the Super Bowl that would be in a few months).....I blurted out....Jerry....(fake name....as if I need to use one)...."Jerry....there's probably not going to be a Super Bowl this year." He laughed....and reminded me of this after the Super Bowl was played....and probably the two or three years after that. I haven't seen Jerry in a while....but I know him pretty well....and I'm sure that the events of the past month or so has brought our conversation back to mind.
So tomorrow....if you do not have your own streaming church service to do....I'd like to recommend a very good sermon on YouTube. Just Google.....'Charles Spurgeon, Do Not Fear Disasters.' Now....the Prince of Preachers went to be with his Lord 128 years ago....but this sermon is almost like it could have been constructed today.
Tomorrow is yet another Lord's Day. These weeks are flying by for me. I said that to my wife and she looked at me like I was from outer space. There is some good coming out of this human disaster that we are living through. For one thing....our Lord's Days during this pandemic are not sports days.
I'm guessing at how many years ago this was....six or seven maybe....in one of the many conversations that I had with a good friend at work....(I've been retired for 3 1/2 years).....some of which were very serious talks....anyway in one of them....where I was expressing my thoughts on how deep the trouble that America was in....and that God was going to judge us....(you should know that he had previously in the conversation talked about the Super Bowl that would be in a few months).....I blurted out....Jerry....(fake name....as if I need to use one)...."Jerry....there's probably not going to be a Super Bowl this year." He laughed....and reminded me of this after the Super Bowl was played....and probably the two or three years after that. I haven't seen Jerry in a while....but I know him pretty well....and I'm sure that the events of the past month or so has brought our conversation back to mind.
So tomorrow....if you do not have your own streaming church service to do....I'd like to recommend a very good sermon on YouTube. Just Google.....'Charles Spurgeon, Do Not Fear Disasters.' Now....the Prince of Preachers went to be with his Lord 128 years ago....but this sermon is almost like it could have been constructed today.
