牧者心聲  Pastor's Message

06/07/2009


      This week I got to visit a good friend of mine from when I was a missionary in Brazil. It was such a blessing to see how God was using him and his family to bring the good news of Jesus around the world. While I was visiting his house, something funny happened. His little son, Joshua, was playing with his new toy truck. He started pushing the truck around, and then he sat on the truck (it was a big toy truck). And then Joshua tried to get inside the cab of the truck to drive it. He managed to stick his foot inside the cab, but that was all that fit. About that time he threw a hissyfit because he wanted with all his might to fit inside that truck and drive it. The only problem was he was way too big to fit inside a toy truck. It reminded me of how we as Christians can be sometimes. We sometimes want to “fit” into things we should have grown out of long ago in our Christian walk. These things may seem fun or exciting, but I imagine when God looks at us trying to fit into these things, it might look something like Joshua trying to fit into that toy car. Paul puts it this way: “When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.” (1 Corinthians 13:11) As we continue in our walk with Christ, I encourage us to put aside childish things, and strive to be the men and women of God that Christ has called us to be!

      Be blessed this week as we walk with God!

      Brother John