Wednesday's thoughts

"And Yet Those Saints Keep Marching On"
"God, Give Me Patience, Now"

There are people who have gone before us who have made footprints in the cement. The Grauman's Chinese Theater established this tradition of having their movie stars put their footprints in the cement. Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford were the first to do that but the tradition continues to this day.

The saints, who have gone before us, have made footprints in the cement, but we are leaving so little of a permanent nature in the chronicle of time. It's as if we are running barefoot through wet cement.

There is a Biblical text that says, "We are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation. God's own people, in that we may proclaim the mighty acts of God who called us out of darkness into God's light. Once we were not a people, but now we are God's people; once we had not received mercy, but now we have received mercy." (1 Peter 2:9-10).

What do we do with the fact that there are people who have made such a difference in their lives, and we seem not to have done much?

How do we praise them for their accomplishments and have patience with ourselves so that we will have a chance to make our accomplishments?

The issue Sunday is patience, and praise, and meaning in life.
Have you done 1. great things? 2. good things? 3.nothing? 4. bad things?

How do our lives stack up as compared to the saints who have gone before us?
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I look forward to hearing from you.

Charles Schuster