Saturday and It's going to be a good one. Doing a little pheasant guiding with Gibbs for another church at a game farm. So I need to coffee up and it will be a big cup of Door County Apple Cobbler.
I really like that one.
My desk has a few pictures on it. Each day when I look at the pictures I go back in my mind to a fishing trip or a couple mission trips, a great day duck hunting, or two portraits of my daughter and grandson.
I like the two with the kids. They were taken about 6 years apart. Dominick will be thirteen this year. To see the difference in the pictures is amazing. He towers over his mother now who I still remember as being "my little girl". It makes you say, "where did the time go?" You admit to yourself that "this old man is getting older".
From that thought it usually takes me to reality. Most of my life is over. What is really important?
Solomon writes about that in the book of Ecclesiastes. This really isn't written for my old friends. It is written for my younger readers.
Advice for Young and Old Ecclesiastes 11:7-10
7 Light is sweet; how pleasant to see a new day dawning.
8 When people live to be very old, let them rejoice in every day of life. But let them also remember there will be many dark days. Everything still to come is meaningless.9 Young people,[d] it’s wonderful to be young! Enjoy every minute of it. Do everything you want to do; take it all in. But remember that you must give an account to God for everything you do. 10 So refuse to worry, and keep your body healthy. But remember that youth, with a whole life before you, is meaningless.
Ecclesiastes 12
New Living Translation (NLT)
12 Don’t let the excitement of youth cause you to forget your Creator. Honor him in your youth before you grow old and say, “Life is not pleasant anymore.” 2 Remember him before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is dim to your old eyes, and rain clouds continually darken your sky. 3 Remember him before your legs—the guards of your house—start to tremble; and before your shoulders—the strong men—stoop. Remember him before your teeth—your few remaining servants—stop grinding; and before your eyes—the women looking through the windows—see dimly.
4 Remember him before the door to life’s opportunities is closed and the sound of work fades. Now you rise at the first chirping of the birds, but then all their sounds will grow faint.5 Remember him before you become fearful of falling and worry about danger in the streets; before your hair turns white like an almond tree in bloom, and you drag along without energy like a dying grasshopper, and the caperberry no longer inspires sexual desire. Remember him before you near the grave, your everlasting home, when the mourners will weep at your funeral.
6 Yes, remember your Creator now while you are young, before the silver cord of life snaps and the golden bowl is broken. Don’t wait until the water jar is smashed at the spring and the pulley is broken at the well. 7 For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
Dear Readers. What is most important is your relationship with God? He is the first and the last.
Embrace Him today. Jesus is calling. Don't turn Him away.
John 14:1-7
English Standard Version (ESV)
I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life
14 “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God;[a] believe also in me. 2 In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?[b] 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. 4 And you know the way to where I am going.”[c] 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.[d] From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
God Bless.
Marty
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