4:53 PM
My wife and I are on a short vacation at a riverside cottage. God's creation is beautiful. Afternoons like this are the times at which I can best understand why God looked at what He'd created and saw that it was very good. It IS very good.
From some Scripture I read today: "In all that he did in the service of the Temple of God and in his efforts to follow God's laws and commands, Hezekiah sought his God wholeheartedly. As a result, he was very successful." (2 Chronicles 31:21, NLT)
May the same be said of everything you and I do.
4 comments:
Great scripture! I suggest we all be careful how we define success. ;)
Side note - Dean SHOULD have said..."My wife and I are on a short, BUT WELL-DESERVED, vacation...". I think we (Wall Highway Baptist Church) are truly blessed to have him and Callie serving.
Great verse indeed! So if Hezekiah was able to be righteous (without Christ) in the eyes of God, what then is the Gospel? I would reference Isa 61:1 and note that Isaiah was preaching the "Good news" back some 800 years prior to Christ. So I wonder what is the Good News???
Leroy, I don't deserve a vacation any more than the next guy (or girl), but thanks!
Preston, Isaiah was proclaiming good news! The Lord was going to lift up the poor and mourning -- trading their ashes for beauty, bringing justice to the downtrodden! Good news, but different good news than "the Gospel," which is translated as "good news" or "good message", but is typically used in conjunction with this particular good news (but I think I know where you were going with that "question"):
"For there is only one God and one Mediator who can reconcile God and humanity—the man Christ Jesus. He gave his life to purchase freedom for everyone. This is the message God gave to the world at just the right time." - 1 Timothy 2:5-6 (NLT)
One might imagine that an immediate response to the question was something more like Hebrews 11:7 (or another such verse). But I thought the question needed a little more clarification. Different uses of "good news" here. That's not the purpose for my post, by the way, but I appreciate a Christ-following thinker: "WHY do we believe what we believe? Is it Scriptural? Okay, then... Show me."
(On a light-hearted note, I used the phrase "good news" five times in a single paragraph above, and a short one, at that! I think I'm in line for some sort of writer's prize...)
Good news (heh, heh, heh)...I agree that I need a vacation too!! Woo-hoo!!
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