February 2, 2024 - Good Morning! It's Friday, February 2.
February 2nd... that's Groundhog Day! At 6:30 this morning, the little furry rodent came out of his house and (drum roll please) he did NOT see his shadow! That means we'll have an early spring! Or maybe it's the opposite. I can't keep it straight. Rodent weather predicting is a complicated thing.
The tradition of Groundhog Day started back in 1887 in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania - a small town about the size of Center, Texas. But on this day the population sometimes swells to over 40,000. Those numbers went way up after the 1993 Hollywood movie, "Groundhog Day", starring Bill Murray as a weatherman who was destined to live the same day over and over and over again. Only Bill Murray could make a movie that repetitious come out that funny.
Every time I watch the movie - and it's one of my favorites - I'm reminded of the quote that's attributed to Albert Einstein. You know the one - "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result". We're surrounded by people living that kind of life, aren't we? Making the same poor choices over and over and getting the same bad outcomes. Maybe there have been times in your life when you practiced this kind of "insanity" - I know that there have been those moments in mine. But God gives us the opportunity to break that cycle of bad life choices. He gives us the opportunity to take a new path, a new journey that leads to good choices, that leads to a life of peace and purpose.
Ephesians 4:22-24. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceiful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
Phil, the movie weatherman, woke up each morning to an old day with the same old problems and the same old bad choices. But the Word tells us that God's mercies are new every morning and that He is faithful. We don't have to continue that cycle of insanity - we can make a good choice every new morning.
We can choose Him.
Meet you back here on Monday,
Bro. David
dmathis@fbccenter.org
