We picked some pumpkins
from our little garden yesterday. These pumpkins are colorful and brilliant...
two different varieties though we only recall planting one pack of seeds. We
have some peppers, yellow squash, and eggplants still in the garden to remind me
of the Lord of the harvest. Alice and I walked last night under the starry
sky. The stars were shining extra brightly, praising the Lord, the Bright
and Morning Star.
We will meet for our
Wednesday gathering for fellowship and study this evening at 6 PM followed by
choir practice at 7:30 PM.
I was reading about a man who
was visiting some of the beautiful old churches in Germany. At one church he
was intrigued by the carved figure of a lamb at a point near the top of the
steeple. He learned that when the church was being built, one of the craftsmen
fell from the scaffolding. As the other workers rushed to find him, fully
expecting he had died from the terrible fall, they were shocked to find him
shaken up, but alive! As he was falling, a flock of sheep was passing by and he
landed on top of a lamb. Though the lamb was killed, it also broke the man's
fall, and he was saved.
In recognition of that
amazing event, the other craftsmen carved the lamb and placed it on the tower at
the exact spot from which the man had fallen. It was a reminder of the time a
man was saved by a lamb.
If we are in Christ, then
we too have been saved by the Lamb. God sent His only Son to break our fall, to
absorb the punishment for sin that was rightly ours and to give us new life.
That's grace. That's God's unmerited favor.
The Apostle Paul
declared "'I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ
lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God,
who loved me and gave himself for me'" (Galatians
2:20).
In Christ,
Brown
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