Daily Archive for August 18 2017
YOU ARE HERE,,,,,,
YOU ARE HERE,,,,
I guess you heard the joke about a man who stopped dating a girl because she was too dumb to date? He took her to Six-Flags Over Texas. He stopped to refer to the park map which had the “you are here” emblem to help you locate your position. His date looked at him with shock and wonder and said, “how did they know?”
Without staying in the Word of God we are lost in this world. We cannot navigate through it based on short-sightedness. The “perpetually exhausted” swim in the arena of short-sightedness.
Imagine, however, if the girl had seen the “you are here” sign, but engraved in stone with it was her name! Not so dumb now, right? If it gave more details about her life, and her part in the larger scheme of things, she would know something special was taking place.
Sunday we deal with the question of, “is this the last hour?”
(I John 2: 18-24 is the passage this Sunday, 9:00 A.M. August 20, 2017.) How can anyone not see that something of great significance is taking place in our world right now?
The question is this; do you know where you are standing in the flow of these events and what your part is in it? We need clarity in these days; to such an extent that each one of us can say, ” I am here, and I am prepared, and I am empowered by the Lord to carry out my part!”
The “urgent things” seem to drain away time from the “important things.” I expect unbelievers to get lost in the next set of circumstances, and run out of meaning in the process. I know that for believers it does not have to be this way. Life for a believer is not a mindless string of activities.
We have an “anointing” that can separate us from such regret. In fact the whole passage Sunday is a play on the word, “anoint.” The word Christ means, “Anointed One.” Our life in deeply connected to His life and His victory. Much more to this than can be covered here. See you Sunday! JWP