Good morning,
Praise the Lord for the way He is our dwelling place. He is our shelter and our refuge. We have been blessed to live in a beautiful parsonage here in Endicott, New York. The Union Center Unite Methodist Church, which loves its pastors and cares for them very dearly, built the parsonage in 1967. We have been very blessed and privileged to have been able to live in one house for almost twenty years. My wife loves to watch the TV program, "Extreme, Makeover Home Edition", which uses volunteers and a team of professionals to build homes for families in need. She also loves to watch this Old House.
Whenever we are in Europe we love to tour castles and cathedrals. They are amazing and intriguing. One of my favorite things to do is to stop and examine each church or cathedral.
One of the tourist sights in San Jose, California is the Winchester Mystery House, a 160-room mansion built by an eccentric wealthy widow who just couldn’t stop building--she kept on for 38 years. The house goes on and on, a maze of rooms with doors that open to blank walls. It also contains 40 staircases, some of which go nowhere. The house is a monument to compulsive meaninglessness.
While visiting Bavaria, Germany for the Passion Play in 2000, we visited Neuschwanstein, a magnificent castle built by King Ludwig II. It is, hands down, the most popular castle in Germany. It sits atop a mountain overlooking the countryside filled with lakes, trees, and sometimes valley fog, and looks like something out of a fairy tale (it’s the castle that was copied for Disneyland). Ludwig died under mysterious circumstances just a few months after Neuschwanstein was completed. He allegedly drowned-- but was it an accident, suicide, or murder? No one knows. He barely got to enjoy his castle, which became for him a tragic a monument to futility.
The next time you go to a local bookstore, you should walk by the philosophy section, where you will see scores of volumes trying to explain life. The word “philosophy” means, “love of wisdom.” Colossians 2:8 warns, “do not be taken captive through empty and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world, rather than on Christ.” Paul states in I Timothy 6:17, “Tell those who are rich in this world not to be proud and not to trust in their money, which will soon be gone. But their trust should be in the living God, who richly provides us with everything we need for our enjoyment.” The “Great life” is found in In Jesus Christ, who is the Way, the Truth, and the LIFE.
Our US Constitution guarantees us the right to pursue happiness, but only God can enable us to achieve this elusive ambition. Jesus is the real Joy giver. The Christian life, which is a journey, is found through an invitation by the Lord to come to Him with full surrender and enter into a life of joy, in the midst of trials and tribulations. Jesus, our Lord, declared, "In this world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."
In Jesus our Lord,
Brown
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