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Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
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One must only watch the news, look at social media, or have a discussion with someone about the world around us, and we come away with so many doubts and questions. For anyone that studies the human condition, it would seem that the world is in a vast flux or spiraling down situation.
Wherever one lives in this world, the world seems to be in an "unknown" and "confusing" condition. I, like most people find myself without the needed answers to the many questions that society is asking today.
When in doubt our confusion in reference to world events, I often think about our time of Pastoral Prayer on Sunday mornings. This is when we gather as the Body of Christ in unified prayer, bring our joys, concerns, hurts, troubles, and doubts before the foot of the cross. We always conclude with the Lords Prayer.
The Lord's Prayer
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.
Amen.
Often these day's we know not where to go, or where to go. Beloved, this is when we must place everything that we are, all that we are thinking and feeling, and give it to God. We know and trust that perfection does not exist in this world, but that the only true answer and perfection is God.The Creator of the Universe, the Father of us all, wants to help us. We only need come before him in prayer, mediation, and a personal relationship.
My prayer for you today is that when you are feeling lost and find yourselves at a loss for a decision, seek out the Father. He wants to know you, He desires a relationship with you, and He has the plan for your life and my life.
The world was is a bad way, and evil was ruling the day when God sent His Son to the Hill of the Skull to be Crucified. This was a decision that none of us would have been able to make, but God had "The Master's Plan". This plan was to save us from ourselves, by Jesus taking our sin and indecision upon himself.
We only need to go as far as the cross to understand that God is at work and is still in the salvation business, He has placed His beloved Son in charge of our world and He is at work this very second.
We have been give the Holy Spirit as a guide and mentor as to help us find our way until Jesus returns for His Kingdom.
Brothers and Sisters: Seek out the F,S&HS this very day and your mind will be set to a peace that surpasses all understanding.
Philippians 4:7
7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Pastor Tim.
