October 29, 2020I remember watching the World Series with my father and my mother’s aunt when I was much younger than I am today. We enjoyed seeing the skills and the strategy in the final games of the baseball season. This year the season was shortened and the duration of the games lengthened, but I would have to rank the latest World Series as one of the best ever. I was glad to watch some of the games with my youngest daughter, Bethany, who shares my love of sports. One surprising announcement came just after the L.A. Dodgers won the World Series: one of their players tested positive for COVID-19. The next morning I heard that he joined his teammates on the field after the game, without a mask!
Life is filled with surprises, isn’t it? As we read the Bible, we see many people doing things that were surprising, like Abraham saying that his wife was his sister and the Israelites, after being fed by God every day on their journey to the Promised Land, begging God to take them back to Egypt after they had been treated so badly there. The more we read God’s Word, the more we learn about His amazing love for mankind. He has given us so many blessings and promises in His Word, including the fact that He will never leave us (Hebrews 13:5).
Around the time that Montreal got a Major League baseball franchise, people around the world watched as American astronauts on the Apollo 11 mission travelled to the moon and back safely. A decade or two before 1969, how many people believed that men would one day walk on the moon? It was only 66 years before the moon landing that the Wright brothers stood on the beaches of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina and watched their bi-plane gain altitude. To read more about the first flight, please visit: https://www.nps.gov/places/kittyhawk.htm.
In the November 2020 edition of “Turning Points” magazine, Dr. David Jeremiah writes: “As Christians we have an undeniable presence in the Person of the Holy Spirit … On the night before His crucifixion, He (Jesus) spoke at length about the Holy Spirit who would come to guide and comfort them (John 14). In fact, He told them that He was explaining His departure back to the Father, and the coming of the Spirit, now so they would believe it then when it happened (v. 29) … The Spirit who became real to them is the same Spirit who wants to be real to us. The Spirit who empowered them is the same Spirit who wants to empower us.”
May we keep looking up and remember God’s promises to His children!
Scripture for the weekend: “For David says concerning Him: ‘I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for He is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken. Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad; moreover my flesh also will rest in hope.’” Acts 2:25-26 (NKJV)
Thought for the weekend: “When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.” – Kristin Armstrong
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