Brown's Daily Word 10-26-10

Good morning,
Praise the Lord for this new day. He is alive and well. He is upon the His throne. All is well. He makes all things well in His time.
Victor Frankl was a Jewish Medical Doctor during 1930’s. Frankl was a pioneer of modern day psychotherapy, and he developed much of his theory for Psychotherapy while he was a prisoner in a WWII concentration camp, arrested along with other Jews and imprisoned. As a Medical Doctor, he was put to work treating other prisoners.
While serving in that capacity, Frankl had an opportunity to observe people under the most trying of circumstances. He saw people as they lived… and he saw them as they died. He had expected that people who were weak would die and those who were strong would survive. However, that wasn’t always true and it caused Frankl to wander if there wasn’t something else involved. What he observed became the source of his “Logo Therapy.” He noticed that those who lived had one thing in common: they had chosen to live rather than die.
He found that when everything else had been taken, friends, food, dignity, health… the one thing their captors could not take away was – choice, the choice to live.
According to Frankl, the last of man’s inalienable rights was the right of individual to choose how they would respond in any given situation. Victor Frankl said: “You cannot always control your circumstances, but you have the power to control your response to your circumstances.”
It reminds me of the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. When commanded by the Babylonian King to bow down to his golden idol they replied:
"O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it, and he will rescue us from your hand, O king. But even if he does not, we want you to know, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up." (Daniel 3:16b-18)
Even if God doesn’t rescue us…
we WILL NOT bow down.
we WILL NOT fall down
we WILL NOT stumble down before your idol.
We know that we have the peace of God when we are able to stand tall and look dead into the fiery furnace in our life and say: "Even if He doesn’t rescue me …. I will not stumble"
Isaiah 26:1-3 is an amazing passage, “In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; God makes salvation its walls and ramparts. Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith. You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.”
In vs. 1 we are told we have a strong city; God makes salvation its walls and ramparts. The imagery God is using is that of safety and peace INSIDE the walls of a city. In other words, if we are to find God’s peace & security then we must be inside the walls. We must be where He wants us to be. Therein lies all salvation, peace, and security.
In Christ,
Brown

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October 30, 2010
Music by Laureen Naik and team
Preacher: Jeff Vansyckle

November 6, 2010 - ( Saturday) There will be a Thanksgiving banquet. At 5 PM a traditional Thanksgiving menu will be served, including home made rolls and pies. Chef: Lou Pasquale and team. (Reservations: Call the Church office (607)-748-6329 or email at umcgospel@aol.com
The banquet will be followed by 6:30 PM Worship
Music: Aric Phinney and the team
Speaker: Kelly Johnson from Nashville, TN.