That quote is from Ecclesiastes 1:9 and King Solomon very well could have been speaking about this new devotional blog by this bi-voicational pastor. Well if there isn't anything new under the sun then that should beg the question, "Why do it?"
Well I am writing this mainly for the wonderful people whom God has given me to shepherd at Expressway Baptist Church. Obviously it is for anybody who would like a word from God in their life. Please feel free to to a comment after each devotional.
The goal of these daily writings is to deepen the walk of those whom Christ has saved and maybe bring those who are lost to a saving knowledge of Him. My plan is to write every day. Monday through Saturday will be devotionals and on Sunday I will be giving a overview of my sermon that day.
For today I thought it would be appropriate to give a brief testimony of who I was before Christ, how I came to know Christ and my walk with Christ since He saved. me.
When I think of all the people God sent my way to bring me to Himself I just shake my head and am amazed. Not raised in a Christian home in the sense that my father would take us to church but God sent many people in my life to make sure that I would come to a saving knowledge of Him.
The first was a man by the name of Harold Lee. God used this humble person to get me to start going to church when we moved back to West Memphis. One Saturday in 1970 me and my brothers were playing football in the front yard. My big brother David was my idol. He was big and strong and five years older than me and took it upon himself to look after us (us being my older sister Debbie and younger brother Jay, and myself). To this very day David is the smartest and most driven person I have ever met. Now a retired Naval officer, a highly decorated at that. He is still someone I admire very much.
David would play football with Jay and me and one Saturday morning a big white church bus came bounding down the road and stopped to talk to the three boys about coming to church. Harold Lee jumped out and said, "Hey guys would yall like to come to church and ride on this bus tomorrow?" We looked up and probably said in one accord, "No!" Not to be denided he immedicately responded back with, "Those who ride my bus gets ice cream on the way home." Now you have to understand, someone saying that now sounds creepy but back then it was innocent and besides what I didn't know is my step mother had attended the Tabernacle Baptist Church some time back.
Well once I heard ice cream being given away I asked my parents if I could go and they said they didn't care so off I went and within a year later my life would never be the same again because in October of 1971 God saved me, not for righteous things that I have done but because of His mercy." (Titus 3:5) Amazing grace indeed.
Here is the point for today's devotional. Romans 10:15 says in part, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” ESV.
As Christians we are to lovingly, prayerfully and tearfully share Christ to a lost and dying world but you never know whose lives you will change for time and eternity when you do the simplest thing and invite them to church.
If you aren't in the habit of inviting people to church, start today and who knows, God might just use your simple obedience to change a person's life forever.
Pretty cool, uh?
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