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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Saturday, June 21, 2014
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