Archive for September 8th, 2010

I just received news that my best friend’s long time friend passed away this morning and as I talked with my friend I was so blessed to see him live his beliefs.  I know that he is definitely feeling a loss but he kept that in perspective.  Let me give you a quote to show you what I mean…”It just really stinks for those of us who didn’t get to go with Him.”

Wow!  What an outlook on life.  What an understanding that this time is temporal.  The drama, the stress, the high points, the low points are all temporary.  In the Bible the Apostle Paul teaches us this:

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 ESV
¹⁶So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. ¹⁷For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, ¹⁸ as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

How often do we look at our life and the circumstances that are consuming us and rejoice that our soul and our heart are being renewed every day.  That the trials that God allows to enter our life are preparing us for our time before Him.  That Jesus is working in our situations to make us more like Him.

If we remembered this more do you think that we would handle things differently?  Would our responses during loss, bills, wrecks, or any other of our everyday struggles be handled with a little more thought and security?

Security?  Yes; security.  See thats what Jesus provides for us.  He has promised us that no one can separate us from Him once we are His and that everything that happens in our lives is useful by Him for good.  Now that is security.  That teaches us that He is in control.  I hear so many Christians that focus on the economy, or who the President is, and are so disgruntled by these things when even though I think those things are important as well as a Christian I can rejoice in the fact that I don’t live under this economy I live under God’s economy.  And the President although the highest authority in this country is not the highest authority in this world: God is.

So as I go back to my friend and his outlook on his friend’s death I am excited to watch Christians live their faith.  That is someone who has had Jesus change his perspective!

Has He changed yours?

God Bless ~
Pastor Tyler