Notes From Pastor Anthony’s Desk;
I would like to take this time to say “Congratulations”
to all of our young people that are advancing in the world of education or in
other words, they are graduating from their respective grades. But most of all
I want to take my hat off to Walter Whisman, Natasha Rogers and most of all our
little faithful Nancy Mullins. I am tremendously proud of all our graduates no
matter which grade they are advancing into next year and I pray that God will
richly bless you no matter what your future holds.
As we think about advancing in life, my mind is
turned to the need for all of us to advance in our spiritual life as well.
Peter tells us in 2 Peter 3 that while we are waiting on the promise of Jesus
Christ 2nd Coming that we are not to just lay around and do nothing
but that we are to be growing in grace and knowledge of the Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ. In other words he says that we should not be satisfied with just
a ho-hum experience with God but we need to be ever learning as much about God
as we can until He comes back to get His bride.
Just as our graduates, no matter what level they
finished, they had to meet certain curriculum requirements in order to advance.
They were tested on the material that they had the opportunity to learn if they
learned it or not. We in the service of God are going to be judged by not only
what we have learned of God, but also by the opportunities that we had to learn
but refused to.
If your soul was required of you today, would you
be able to graduate from this earthly body into one that is glorified and
eternal? Or would you have missed the mark that was set before you and fail to
make Heaven your home? It makes you think, doesn’t it?
In my prayers,
Pastor Anthony
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