Day of Praise

Sa, 07/06/13, "Day of Praise"

"Jesus answered, 'It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.'" - John 9:3

God permitted a man to be born blind so that the work of God could be displayed in him.

Jesus made the same blind man to see so that the work of God could be displayed in him.

God wants all of us to see so that the work of God can be displayed in us.

I was watching some new kids play on our trampoline in our backyard. They clearly saw the peril in jumping foolhardy, recklessly bold, or rash on an elevated trampoline where some other kids had torn down the safety net. But the safety limitations were not going to set the pace of fun for these new kids, none of which was older than ten.

They were looking for the possibilities. And since they looked for the possibilities, then they clearly saw them. And for the next ten or fifteen minutes, they formed a line and took turns swinging on a ragged part of the trampoline net, using it to swing like Tarzan and Jane from the outermost, metal spring part of the trampoline toward the safest, innermost center.

We need more kids like that. My, oh my, we need more people like that...

...People who stop dwelling on what we can't do and start looking for both the possibilities that God has made available to us and also the possibilities that God would have us see so that the work of God can be displayed in us.

Happy Saturday!

Praise God!

(For an archive of "Day of Praise", please visit my daughter Calley's website at http://dayofpraisepc.blogspot.com/?m=1)


Pastor Chris
"The gospel is the story of Jesus [what God's only Son has done for us that we can't do for ourselves], spoken as a promise." - Robert Jenson