The other day we checked the schedule and SpaceX was launching another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites. Where we live we can just go down to the end of the block and at night we can see the rockets head into space and sometimes even see the main boosters relight as they come back to earth. The Falcon 9 rockets were fired off from Vandenberg Space Force Base and so we walked out to the corner and watched another rocket head into space…and then we walked back to the house. My son turned to me and said “Dad, did you ever think that you’d be able to just walk outside and on a regular basis watch satellites being launched into orbit around the earth?” I thought about what it was like as a kid to watch on black and white TVs the rockets being launched in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs. We waited sometimes for months and my schools would set up TVs so we could see history being made before our eyes. And now, I put on my flip-flops and watch almost on a weekly basis. But I answered my son saying “I would have never dreamed that anything like this would be possible for me to see!” But still…I think I take for granted that this stuff will happen and that maybe it isn’t as special as it once was. Maybe we do that with this new life that have in Christ also. The Apostle Paul said that all of us were somewhere far away from God before he changed us, cleansed us, made us holy and made us right with God. He said we came from all kinds of sexual sin, worshiping all sorts of things other than God, some were thieves or greedy people or drunkards or abusive or cheated people. All of us came from somewhere…and it wasn’t with God. And maybe we walk through these days on the other side of our salvation, we take for granted what God has done for us. We need to remember where we were before God got hold of our lives and we gave ourselves to him. We weren’t always going to heaven, we didn’t have that sure hope of eternal life with God and often we didn’t know how we were going to make it through each day. So take time to remember where you have come from…and thank God again for pursuing you and then welcoming you to his family. Let your heart be filled with gratitude each day for all that God has done and especially how God took your brokenness and sin…and paid for it all so that you…and I could live with him forever. Never let that story of You become old. Of where you were and how God has changed your heart. For many it was to take the sword of anger and bitterness and unforgiveness from our hearts and replace it with a heart that could now be filled with love and joy and patience and peace and forgiveness. Your story is a great story…don’t let it and the excitement of it be lost to you. And let the remembering of it cause you to overflow with gratitude to the God who took you as a mess and made you his child…just because he loved you. Here’s our Bible verse for today…
1 Corinthians 6:11 NLT Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Remember I’m praying for you!
With love, PJ
1 Corinthians 6:11 NLT Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Remember I’m praying for you!
With love, PJ