Brown's Daily Word 1-29-10

Good morning,
Praise the Lord for this new day, the last Friday of January. Sunita returned to Washington yesterday. She called me from her connection in Philly on her way to Washington. It was great to hear her sweet voice. She had a very blessed and fruitful time in Israel.
We will gather for an evening Italian fest tomorrow, Saturday evening at 6 PM at Union Center Fellowship Hall. It will be a time of great refreshing and fellowship. There will plenty of sumptuous foods prepared with much love. Those of you who live in the vicinity, please come and join us. Every time we gather in the Name of our Lord He shows up there with His mercy and grace. Praise the Lord for our lives in Jesus Christ. We are so blessed. Somebody said, "I am too blessed to be depressed". One newcomer to our church said after last Sunday's worship that we are too anointed to be disappointed. Praise be to Jesus.
C. S. Lewis wrote, "When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over. God is going to invade, all right; but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else comes crashing in? This time it will be God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature. It will be too late then to choose your side. That will not be the time for choosing; it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side."
Some day God, the author of all life, will walk onto the stage of planet earth and time will be no more. What has been done, will be. As Lewis said, "It will be too late to choose your side."
But, thanks be to God, He has chosen us and He has given us His grace to choose Jesus to be our Savior, our deliverer! Ephesians 1:3-5 says, "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will."
In Ephesians 1:11-12 we read, "In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory."


In Christ,
Brown
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