Good Morning,
Praise the Lord for this new day, a gift from the Lord. It is supposed to reach into the mid- to upper-sixties this afternoon. Praise the Lord!
I read the following story some time ago: One day the preacher visited a certain Sunday school class. He asked, “Who broke down the walls of Jericho?” “I didn’t, mister. Honest!” a startled little boy blurted. The SS teacher said, “This boy is honest. I can vouch for him. He didn’t do it.” Later, the preacher recounted the experience to an elder. The elder replied, “Hmmm, sounds incriminating. But I’ve known the boy and his teacher for a long time. I’m sure neither one is guilty.” Appalled by this time, the preacher took the matter to the Chairman of the Board. The chairman said, “Why make a mountain out of a molehill? Let’s have the walls repaired and charge it to upkeep.” The worst ignorance of all is spiritual ignorance. In this the world we live in spiritual ignorance abounds. The worst of all is when people don’t recognize Jesus as the Son of God and Savior of the world! We read in 1 Peter 1:10 ff, "Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven." C. S. Lewis gave us the following insight, "Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition, when infinite joy is offered to us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in the slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." Lewis is saying that we are often satisfied by the things of the world. Instead of searching for the deep things of God we are content with the ordinary. We could, rather, be building the kingdom of God!
In Christ,
Brown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGR944fq-Yg
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