Praise the Lord for this sweet summer season, which is coming
to an abrupt conclusion. I trust you all had a beautiful and blessed
summer. The Lord blessed us with a beautiful summer. Last week we had our two
older grandchildren from Boston here with us for whole week. We spent a couple
of days at Sky Lake, one of our church's beautiful retreat and camping centers.
We took our nieces and nephews with us. Sky Lake is a place of beauty. In
the words of John Keats, one of the Romantic Poets of England, "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into
nothingness".
One morning we were all
involved in a scavenger hunt around the lake. I was gazing at the tall and
majestic trees all around the lake and surroundings when, suddenly, the children
who were walking ahead of us running back screaming except our grandson Simeon,
who marched forward, unafraid. I went forward a few yards to explore the
situation. I thought I saw the big tail of an alligator. After a closer
encounter I found out that it was a huge Turtle bathing in the morning
sunshine. The children were all scared and screaming except young man Simeon,
who was brave and unafraid, who was moving toward the wild creature . I pulled
him back and beat the Turtle on its shell with a stick. That huge creature was
not afraid of us. Only after some intentional provocation by us did it very
reluctantly crawl back into the waters of the lake. It was one of the sights
and sounds of our trip to the Sky Lake this summer.
Micah and Simeon are now back in Boston at their natural
habitat. Grandmom Alice took them this past weekend and returned back home
yesterday. Today is the First Day of school for most teachers and staff here in
New York. Countless students will be back in School tomorrow for another year
after the long summer holidays. Praise the Lord for schools and
colleges. No one likes to be called a dummy or to be
considered stupid. The fact is that society places a high value on education in
our day and age. People spend hundreds and thousands of dollars so that they
might get an advanced degree and be educated.
The Bible is, however the "last word" on education. The Word
of the Lord declares, "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom." Paul
wrote in Ephesians 1: "I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you
in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious
Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know
him better" (Ephesians 1:16,17). That was Paul’s prayer. This is our prayer
this morning as we once again discover God’s wisdom for our lives. We pray
that the Lord our Savior will give us wisdom and revelation so that we may know
him better. "THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM"
In Christ,
Brown
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