May 15, 2025 - It’s Tuesday night, and I really wish you could see what all is “across the preacher’s desk”. There are 3 coffee cups (one with coffee in it) 4 Bibles (one is a chronological bible) various other books and several beginnings of sermons along with assorted scraps of paper with notes on them.
You see, sometimes it is hard to focus and this is one of those times. My mind keeps wandering to those who just can’t seem to see the need of Christ or the church in their lives. Not just those who have never known Jesus, but many of those who have at one time in the past been faithful to the Lord and have now rejected the Lord and the church. I often wonder what could I possibly say to motivate people to be more concerned about their souls and the church. Then I remember what I told a preacher friend one time, “If Jesus on the cross cannot motivate people to serve God faithfully, then there is nothing I can say to motivate them.”
Some reading this could have been and should have been in worship, yet they stayed away. Many have stayed away for years. Would the circumstances that kept and has kept them from worship keep them from other appointments, from Wal-Mart, from a sporting event or work? I don’t know. But they do and God does.
You know, if faithfulness, loyalty and commitment to the Lord and the church are not a part of our lives, the day may come that the church is no longer there for us, because we weren’t there for the church.
It’s something to think about. . . tbp
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