The fan is moving air quietly around, I hear the sound of the fountain in the front yard, my guitar sits looking accusingly at me, and there is just enough heat and humidity to make me feel a little soggy. It’s altogether possible that you don’t care about those descriptive elements of this moment, but I’d rather imagine that you do.
Look for crosses,
and while it is fair weather,
mend the sails of the ship.
Samuel Rutherford
Enjoy fair weather; be prepared for foul.
In active obedience, we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience, we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.
Jeremiah Burroughs
In other words, in everything give thanks, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus (1 Thessalonians 5:18).
Strike from us the empty words of the sons of disobedience, and open our ears and hearts to receive humbly the word of Your wisdom. Amen.
Prayer for Illumination
We pray that corporately at our church sometimes before the reading of God’s word and hearing the sermon.
The secret of joy is Christ in me –
not me in a different set of circumstances.
Elisabeth Elliot
Thank you for the reminder, dear Elisabeth.
Beauty is a gratuitous gift of the creator God;
it finds its source and its purpose in God’s character.
God, out of his gratuitous love,
created a world he did not need
because he is an artist.
You need only step outside your house into the world that God made to see the artistry of the creator. Beauty is not an accident.
This soggy bloggy will disappear tomoggy. In the morning.
Lynniebeemuseoday 