Just a reminder that Monday Dec. 24th Christmas Eve, we will be having a candlelight service @6:30pm. I hope you will make it a part of you're holiday plans.
This morning is the last part on "Life's Journey". In 1 Corinthians 10:13 it says: '[God] will...make a way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.' I love the analogy of the Army and Christian discipleship. Before the Army sends you into battle they first send you to boot camp. You're up at dawn running miles with a heavy backpack, climbing over barricades, crawling through mud with the sounds of gunfire all around you, taking orders from authority figures you don't like, who make you do stuff you don't want to do. But when you pass the test you get to wear the uniform and fight for your country. Same thing in our walk of faith. When we go through things that will require some spiritual battle; we must believe these words of Paul: 'But with the temptation will also make a way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.' The Living Bible says, '...So that you can bear up patiently against it.' God is looking for people who are able to bear up under training, then go out and win the battle with the enemy.' For every problem, God has a solution. But it may not be the solution you have in mind! Satan's strategy is to defeat you by wearing you down, so winning is not a matter of escape but of endurance. Tenacious faith and commitment is one of the great themes of Scripture. It's also the secret of victory. When their prison doors miraculously opened, Paul and Silas realised that God's plan for them was not to escape but to stay there and win the jailer and his family to Christ. Sometimes God's 'way of escape' is to keep you where you are and use you to bring glory to His name even if the easiest thing to do is just leave the situation. You are loved!
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