Wise Men Still Seek Him -- Dec 29, 2019 at Colchester & Hills Grove
This was my script for today as I gave message
Seeking Jesus is a lifelong journey to find your true self
We are a part of this world; we are not monks following vows of silence in mountain cloister.
Jesus called us to be a light in the world not to run away and hide.
We cannot follow Jesus in isolation – we must bring Spirit into daily life.
We have a cord to hang onto in sorrow and we have a gift of gratitude in joy.
It is a sobering responsibility to have to care for a newborn child.
I believe the child was born in communion with God and now exists in this world of cares. We must allow this child to grow and be secured in love –
The world has perils; the world will challenge this child as he grows.
I must offer to be his guide, yet I have often lost the path myself.
I do have a renewed call to leave a world of health for this child. As soon as he was born the condition of our world became a pressing concern for me. I grew up and lived in Smithshire. I spent time working and walking the fields and woods. What world will James have for his grandchildren? I must be a light to the world, but I must also be a light for James to follow in this threatening world.
How if I am not my true self can I be a guide to James?
– I must seek, search, pray, and reflect
Cartoon God - 3rd Grade Jesus
I must also fight to preserve God’s creation, if James is to have the abundant life I have been granted.
It is the reality and the challenge we must seek God while navigating in a world where God is often it seems absent. The troubles we face are not of God’s making. We face them because of the failures of humanity. In any time in life sometimes we will be closer to God than at others. We may seek to live in the Kingdom of Heaven on this Earth, but it will come and go or recede like the ebb and flow of the tides.
This is why we must seek search and reflect. I am never assured of my salvation as much I might try to be. I have observed too many who have laid their claim on salvation
whom from my observation Jesus will not know.
I try to walk humbly with my God and check the trail markers. I have found wandering off the path is easy. Finding it again is challenging.
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