Copyright 2012: singeronthesand
Since everything here today might well be gone
tomorrow, do you see how essential it is to
live a holy life?
2 Peter 3:11
All of the recent funerals from the congregation of the church where I work have left me in a rather melancholy spirit. The old saying of, "Here today, gone tomorrow" has never seemed more real. One of the Old Testament writers likens the life of man to the grass in the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven. The brevity of human existence is a theme that reappears frequently in scripture.
There are so many things in this world that I would like to see, hear, touch, experience, do. I determined that this year I would experience as many new things as my time and budget would allow. I've seen a brand new opera, watched the Chinese National Acrobats from Beijing, attended two master classes at Carnegie Hall, signed up for a photography class during cherry blossom season in Washington, D.C., and purchased tickets for an exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls in New York City. Everything has been wonderful so far, and I know that these activities have enabled me to continue to stretch and grow.
The Apostle Peter's concern, however, has little to do with what you have physically done, but how you have lived your life. The King James' word for "holy life" is godliness - Godlikeness - walking in the footsteps of Jesus, fashioning my life after His. His life was lived loving God and helping others - caring for them instead of living for myself. For today, and all the tomorrows to come, I choose to follow Jesus.
There are so many things in this world that I would like to see, hear, touch, experience, do. I determined that this year I would experience as many new things as my time and budget would allow. I've seen a brand new opera, watched the Chinese National Acrobats from Beijing, attended two master classes at Carnegie Hall, signed up for a photography class during cherry blossom season in Washington, D.C., and purchased tickets for an exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls in New York City. Everything has been wonderful so far, and I know that these activities have enabled me to continue to stretch and grow.
The Apostle Peter's concern, however, has little to do with what you have physically done, but how you have lived your life. The King James' word for "holy life" is godliness - Godlikeness - walking in the footsteps of Jesus, fashioning my life after His. His life was lived loving God and helping others - caring for them instead of living for myself. For today, and all the tomorrows to come, I choose to follow Jesus.
[I apologize for the lateness of the transmission these last few days.
I am still chasing that hour I lost last weekend!]
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