I have been thinking
about living a life for an audience of One living life for Jesus and leaving all
the rest up to Him. He has said, “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’
declares the Lord,’ plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you
hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I
will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your
heart’” (Jeremiah 29:11-13). Again, the Bible tells us what it is all about.
“And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in
his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does
not have life” (1 John 5:11-12). We see that truth in the headlines every
day.
Gerard Manley Hopkins, in one of his great poems, wrote:
THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness...
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs-
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
Life opens up to those who look upward rather than inward. Fulfillment and fruitfulness come to those who do not try to find life by filling it with things or the acceptance of the crowd. Life surprises with joy those who refuse to live as though the world revolves around them. Life is aflame for those who live with eyes to see that the Lord is at work all around us. He is alive and well. We serve and live under a captain who has never lost a battle. Blessed be His Name.
Gerard Manley Hopkins, in one of his great poems, wrote:
THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness...
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs-
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
Life opens up to those who look upward rather than inward. Fulfillment and fruitfulness come to those who do not try to find life by filling it with things or the acceptance of the crowd. Life surprises with joy those who refuse to live as though the world revolves around them. Life is aflame for those who live with eyes to see that the Lord is at work all around us. He is alive and well. We serve and live under a captain who has never lost a battle. Blessed be His Name.
In
Christ,
Brown
Super
Summer Music Festival
Saturday, June 30, 2012 at 6:30
PM
Location: First United Methodist
Church
53
McKinley Avenue, Endicott
Sponsored by: Union Center United Methodist
Church
Musicians include: Aric Phinney, Yancey
Moore,
David
Berry, Emma Brunson, Dianne Glann
Weekly Television outreach:
Friday
7:00 PM
Time
Warner Cable Channel 4.
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