Sermon 8-22-99 The Potter's Field
Being a parent means that sometimes you have to deliver the bad news
No you cannot spend the night, you cannot play in the dirt, you cannot do that right now, that behavior is not acceptable, you are going to find trouble if if continues.
Going back to school is a good example of a preemptive strike I take every year. Be good, do well, if you are trouble in school, you'll be in trouble at home.
Jeremiah is a deliverer of bad news
Questions the character of Israel & warns of trouble ahead
The pottor's shop
Shaping, breaking, throwing out, shaping, using...
Bill Blancards & the pottery shop
Not about money, he was creating, giving, shaping
One at a time or a whole set/individually or corporately
The potter's hand is on the clay
Most joyful moment of my life cam when I understood that I was loved
When God takes your hand it is forever [even for Israel]
God is a perfect gentleman
The potter has a plan, an idea, a drean/the potter is shaping
He doesn't throw us away
God don't make junk
A purpose to which he is forming us
Compare your concpt of purpose in life with Gods
Spending more time on you outward self or inward self?
The end is a vessel
We don't always see the end of His plan, but there is a plan
You are a vessel of God
What will you carry in your vessel?
What is on the inside? Read the light of God from Dick Burnett
Not always so...Sometimes we choose to fill our hearts with the wrong thing
Importance of today's acts of grace...read Tomorrow
this is the essence of the Christian faith
To believe that you are in the hands of a loving God
To turn yourself over, submit to his design
To carry his love to those in your world
If Tomorrow Never Comes
If I knew it would be the last time that I'd see you fall asleep,
I would tuck you in more tightly and pray the Lord, your soul to keep,
If I knew it would be the last time that I see you walk out the door,
I would give you a hug and kiss and call you back for one more.
If I knew it would be the last time I'd hear your voice lifted us in praise,
I would video tape each action and word, so I could play them back day after day.
If I knew it would be the last time, I could spare an extra minute to stop and say "I Love You." instead of assuming, you would KNOW I do.
If I knew it would be the last time I would be there to share your day,
"well I'm sure you'll have so many more, so I can let just this one slip away
For surely there's always tomorrow to make up for an oversight,
and we always get a second chance to make everything right.
There will always be another day to say our "I Love you's"
And certainly there's another chance to say our "Anything I can do's?"
But just in case I might be wrong, and today is all I get,
I'd like to say how much I love you and I hope we never forget
that tomorrow isnot promised to anone, young or old alike,
and today may be the last chance you get to hold your loved on tight.
So if you're waiting for tomorrow, why not do it today?
For if tomorrow never comes, you'll surely regret the day.
That you didn't take that extra time for a smile, a hug, or a kiss
and you were too busy to grant someone, what turned out to be their one last wish.
So hold your loved ones close today, whisper in their ear,
Tell them how mush you love then and that you'll always hold them dear,
Take time to day "I'm sorry," "please forgive me.""thank you" or "it's okay"
and if tomorrow never comes, you'll have no regrets about today.
Guidance
The light of Giod shines from within me as wisdon and understanding.
Stars brightly gleaming on a clear summer night are a vision of beauty and also a reminder of the magnificent order that exists in the universe.
Within me, too, is a brightly shining light - a divine light of wisdom and inspiration. I am a child of God. With all the beauty and majesty of brightly shining starts, God's lights of understanding guides me in the choices I make each day. I intuitively know how to be loving and compassionate toward others.
The light of God within me is an instant, constant connection to all the wisdom I will ever need for myself and for offering support to others, I am a child of God whose radiant inner light of spiritually is shining out into the world. This is light that reveals the answer to every question of mind and heart.
"For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God." - Romans8:14
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