Hearing The Sermon Again!

As I started to write this entry in my blog, I realized I had written a very similar entry once or twice before. My family and I are going through I particularly hard time, right now. Maybe the hardest we have ever faced and it cause me to almost question my faith. My theme is no matter what God has in store for us, we will pray our way through and continue to praise His name. The problem with writing these very words was I was just about to be tested even more to see if I can walk it like I talk it!

I was reminded a story I read in my devotional “Our Daily Bread” where a man preached an impressive sermon seeking to be the pastor of a new church. Everyone loved it and voted for him to become their new pastor. They were a bit surprised when he preached the same sermon his first Sunday as their new pastor. They were even more surprised when he preached the same sermon his second and third week. So much so the leaders of the church met with the new pastor and questioned him. The pastor assured, “I know what I’m doing. When you start living out this sermon, I’ll go on to the next one.”

I revisit this theme again because, once again I found myself just short of giving up, feeling spiritually and emotional burned out. But the entry in Our Daily Bread reminded me sometimes God has to put us through the same test over and over until we finally past the test. He needs to preach the same sermon to us until we start ‘living out the sermon.’

This time the difference is my wife and I have pulled together and we are working together and not separately, which is no different then working against each other. Blocking the blessings God has for my family.

A young lady who calls me her spiritual big brother told me this morning, after hearing what our current situation was, that she was so excited for me. I was a little confused and asked her to explain and she said she was so excited because she knew that God is about to shower my family with blessings and elevate us to another level, because of my faith. God was using her to tell me what he had used me to preach to her when she was down, and went on to tell me the very words I told her when she was down.

To make a long story short my advice for all that read this today is this: A SERMON ISN’T COMPLETE UNTIL ITS PUT INTO PRACTICE! So I share this recurring theme with you once more, because like some of you out there, I needed to hear the sermon again!

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