One Minute Sermon

Happy Friday!!!!

Not sure why this was weighing so heavily on my mind this morning, but I decided to share it once more!  Have a blessed weekend!!

To be a survivor in this amazing race
with a need for speed you need God’s grace.

And if you’re desperate like housewives
watching days of our lives,
you can’t cope without hope
and that’s not on a soap.

If you’re lookin to Oprah or Dr. Phil
you can shop nonstop or pop a pill.
But the void won’t fill and the pain won’t kill
till you love the one that hung on the hill.

Kicking back in your lazy boy easy chair
watching who want’s to be a millionaire.

Na, you’re not gonna find it there.

No American idol or counsel tribal
has a final answer that’l satisfy ya.

CSI ain’t got a clue,
SVU don’t know what to do.
Not the ER or OC,
nothin on a CD, TV, DVD or MP3
can save you and me.

CNN’s got no good news,
here’s a headline, you must choose.

It’s not a simple life Paris Hilton,
it’s treadin on thin ice, living in sin.

You can be an apprentice for Donald Trump
or eat Fear Factor fast food from a dump.
You can be a heavy hitter or Wheel of Fortune winner,
a Fox News news spin spinner
or a flat out sinner.

But you better check this life that your livin
and make sure your sins are forgiven.

I bet ya 50 cent Elvis done came and went.
And eventually, every Black Eyed Pea, Gwen Staffani, P-Diddy and Brittany;
every wanta be on MTV with they icy bling;
every Dixie chick that sings.

They all gonna see the King of Kings.

I don’t care if you’re J-Lo, Leno, or Bano.
One thing you gotta know,
some day you gonna die bro,
then where you gonna go?

Hey I’m not talkin some punk junk that’s irrelevant
like you’re grandma’s church from way back when,
it’s not some preacher feature on TBN
that ya need to be liken or listenin.

The real super star is Jesus Christ.
He’s the way
He’s truth
and the life.

One day He’s gonna split the sky,
He’s the brightest light
and the highest high.

So what I came to say
and what I’m tellin ya,
is don’t buy that stupid stuff
they be sellin ya.

It’s all designed to fill you head
and waist your space,
until you’re dead.

Here’s the bottom line of my rhyme;
Give your life to God while there’s still time.

In God's Time

I heard a story which illustrates how we often confuse God's timing with ours. A country newspaper had been running a series of articles on the value of church attendance. 

One day, a letter to the editor was received in the newspaper office. It read, "Print this if you dare. I have been trying an experiment. I have a field of corn which I plowed on Sunday. I planted it on Sunday. I did all the cultivating on Sunday. I gathered the harvest on Sunday and hauled it to my barn on Sunday. I find that my harvest this October is just as great as any of my neighbors' who went to church on Sunday. So where was God all this time?" 

The editor printed the letter, but added his reply at the bottom. "Your mistake was in thinking that God always settles his accounts in October." 

That's often our mistake as well, isn't it -- thinking that God should act when and how we want Him to act, according to our timetable rather than His. The fact that our vision is limited, finite, unable to see the end from the beginning, somehow escapes our mind (sometimes conveniently so).   And so we complain; we get frustrated; we even accuse God of being indifferent to us. 

That's when God reminds us that... "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts". (Isaiah 55:8-9)God's timetable is perfect. He will do exactly what is best for us - in His own time - according to His wonderful plans for us, because He loves us so much. Wait! Be patient! His clock may show a different time than our clock, but it's the right one. 

Have a great week.