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Saturday, June 21, 2014

Brown's Daily Word 6.21.14

Praise the Lord for this the first day of sweet summer.  I just got back from India yesterday.  All of my siblings were able to be with our mom for a few days.  She recognized us.  She is placed in a special care unit in a Catholic Hospital in Bhubaneswar.  She is receiving very good care there.  We praise the Lord for all the Christian nurses and the staff at this hospital.  Thank you for praying for her and for all of us.  While I was in Orissa, India, it was the mid-summer season.  The temperature in Bhubaneswar was reaching 117 F almost every day.  It is also mango SEASON.  I WAS VERY BLESSED TO BE IN India DURING MANGO SEASON.  The monsoon season started the day I left India.  Praise the Lord for the summer season here in America the Beautiful.  Every season is God’s season, but summer has its special power.
    Jesus Christ is refreshing.  Our Lord  God made summer as a foretaste of heaven, not a substitute.    God of the earth and the heaven gives us a sun-soaked, tree-green, flower-blooming, lake-glistening letter of love to show us what he is planning for us in the age to come—“things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered into the heart of man, God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9).  Jesus Christ is the refreshing center of summer.  He is preeminent in all things (Colossians 1:18), including vacations, picnics, softball,  long walks, and cookouts.  He invites us: “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28).  This is serious summer refreshment.

    It is the mind-set of Colossians 3:1-2, "If then you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth."  In the summer the earth is very much a part of our experience.  It is God’s earth, but it is all prelude to the real drama of heaven.  It is a foretaste of the real banquet.  It is a video preview of the reality of what the eternal summer will be like when “the city has no need of sun or moon to shine upon it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb” (Revelation 21:23).  So, you see, the summer sun is a mere pointer to the sun that will be: the glory of God.  Summer is for seeing and showing that.  Do we have eyes to see?  Lord, let us see the Light beyond.

In Christ,

 Brown

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