Friday, June 21, 2013

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year


Nope.  Check the date.  This is a fresh one, not an old one about Christmas.  Though I do want to linger on Christmas for an instant because that is where the title came from.  Because someone always says it every year.  “I wish every day could be like this.”  Why?  We are closer to the ones we love, a little more giving, a little more patient (at least early in the season), a little more faith-filled.  And it just feels good, doesn’t it?
 
The same thing happened just after 911.  We came together.  We loved our neighbors and supported one another.  We flew flags and talked about God and country.
 
And now Vacation Bible School.  Before you laugh this off, stop and think.  We are loving each other more, reaching out to the community, more giving of ourselves, a little more patient (at least early in the week), a little more faith-filled.  And it does feel good, doesn’t it?
 
We hug in the hallways (although we’re pretty good about doing that all the time), we love on each other on Facebook, we celebrate new people in our midst, we have a heart for getting God’s Word out to the community.  I wish every day could be like this.  No, I’m not ready to add another week on to Bible School.  Doing one wore me out.  But we have been so blessed as a body of believers.  Let’s keep rolling!
 
Ephesians 4:15-16; 2 Corinthians 3:3-6
…but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head--Christ--from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love…clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.  And we have such trust through Christ toward God.  Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.