Reaching out from Grand Lake Community Chapel
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Greetings in Christ!
This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it! Let us rejoice in the life-giving rain that fell earlier in the week, and let us be glad that our lawns and gardens have been refreshed. Let us also rejoice and be glad that the weather pattern that brought rain to our region looks to be heading east to our friends in Canada to bring some much-needed relief to them as they continue to struggle with wildfires. At the perfect time, God provided what we needed. Unbelievable, isn’t it?
Not really. Wondrous and miraculous, perhaps, but certainly not unbelievable; God always provides what we need, when we need it. There’s nothing unbelievable about God doing what God has done since the beginning of time. Think about it for a minute; look back over the times in your life when you didn’t know what to do or where to turn for answers to vexing problems or where to find resources to respond to an urgent need. And then when you turned to God in prayer seeking his help, what you truly needed made itself available to you. Your pastors have experienced this so many times in our lives that we’ve lost count; we didn’t always get what we wished for, but we were blessed with exactly what was needed to meet the challenge before us. The sad thing is that when we’re caught up in the moment, worried and frightened to the point of desperation, we don’t always remember that the Source of all that we need is right in front of us – we need only ask for his help. As many times as a solution has been presented to us; often one that we could not have conceived, it is still easy to fall into fear; and we are ashamed of ourselves. We’re confident that many of you have had similar experiences, both in terms of having solutions to your concerns show up at the perfect time, and in terms of being fearful. Maybe that’s OK, because we are merely human, yet at the same time it’s very much not OK because we know that God wants only good for us. We know that he will never abandon us if we seek him. Our tendency is to think we have to face hard times on our own, but the truth is that we never have to face anything alone; God is with us through thick and thin, loving us and guiding us and protecting us from evil – and sometimes from ourselves. Just remember, God is good all the time, and all the time God is good!
With our blessings,
Karen and Greg
Home: (989) 474-9116, Cell: (734) 502-5969
revgregrc@yahoo.com / revgreggl@yahoo.com
revkarenrc@yahoo.com / revkarengl@yahoo.com
In their hearts humans plan their course,
but the Lord establishes their steps. Proverbs 16:9
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