Reflections From the Pastor      
 
          Without God

        Let's take God out of our schools and see what happens.  Let's take God out of our judicial system and see what happens.  Let's take God out of our daily life and see what happens.  What happens is chaos.  What happens is despair and depression.  What happens is lack of purpose.  We have mass killings in our schools, some done by teenagers.  We have miscarriages of justice and rapists and child-molesters, killers and thieves, walking freely among us.  We kill pre-born babies and call it choice.  We have suicides and homicides and drunken orgies in our midst. We lose our way and our purpose for being.

        Blaise Paschal said:  "There is a God-shaped vacuum within us which only God can fill."  However when we take God out of our lives that vacuum will be filled with something.  Drugs come to mind alcohol is a powerful drug.  There is carnage on our highways and in many lives.  Suicide and homicide are far too prevalent.  But without God in our life, what do you expect?

        Wake up America!  Wake up people!  God is!  And  you are going to have to deal with Him.  How will you deal with Him?  First you need to find out Who God is.  You won't get a valid representation of God though the newspapers or magazines or on most TV stations.  But God hasn't hidden Himself.  He has given us His Holy Inspired Word handed down for thousands of years.  Read the Bible and then decide for yourself Who God is and what God wants from you.

        If you come to know God it will change your life and it will change your destiny, if you truly seek to come to know God and allow God to transform your life.  He can and He will if you ask.  Without God there is absolutely no hope.  With God there is the chance for hope and life and a whole gamut of transforming resources.  Go to church and find out how much God loves you and what He wants from you and for you.

        The world seems to be falling farther and farther away from God's plan. But we know that there will be a harvest of souls.  We must be ready to win folks to Christ.  Jesus told His disciples that He would make them fishers of men.  We have that same promise.  Life sometimes seems too busy.  But in these harried times we need to stop and listen to the "still small voice" of God.  That is how we will hear what it is that God
is calling us to do.

        There is a challenge.  We can follow the ways of the world or we can follow the ways of God.  I urge you to seek God's truth and submit to God.  The choice is yours.  Choose wisely.

         This month we enter the season of summer.  Let the summertime of your soul bring growth and maturity to your spiritual life.  Put your hope in God and receive life everlasting.  God will never disappoint you.  God will never leave you.  God will never forsake you.

         May God richly bless you with understanding.