Better Questions

Good morning friends! It is one day before my 44th birthday - so much has changed in the last year! I am a different person both inside and out; smaller in size but with much more confidence in my physical abilities, wiser yet so unsure, victorious but not independent, assured of my salvation and God's love but with so many new questions.

As I mentioned I bought a new CD by Todd Agnew called "Better Questions" and I think that for the next few weeks my sermons will most likely come out of God speaking to me from these songs. If you will indulge me I will share part of todays sermon with you.

"I've got better questions than I have answers, better dreams than I have plans. I've got better thoughts than I have actions so I built my house on what I thought was solid ground but now I know it could be sand." - Todd Agnew

You and I are full of questions, dreams and thoughts but where do they lead us? Do we have all the answers? Will we ever have all the answers? What are your dreams today? What are you doing about them? What are you thinking? What actions should you be taking today?

What is our purpose? Why were we put here? Why do we endure the things we do? What does God expect of you? What is the meaning of life? We find this summed up at the end of Christ's life as He prayed for us in John 17:1-26. Ultimately the meaning of life is summed up in verse 3 - "this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent." All the rest is just fluff, filler whatever is necessary to get us to that point of "KNOWING HIM" - not just knowing about Him but actually, intimately "KNOWING HIM" in all His fullness. Knowing how much He loves you. Knowing how much He believes in you. Knowing what He desires for you and your life.

As we learn to Know Him we then must begin Trusting HIM! Trust Him for your physical needs, for your emotional needs, for your spiritual needs. Trust Him. For in knowing Him we learn He has your best interest at heart and you can trust Him for he says to you in Jeremial 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans to give you a future and a hope." He wants what is best for you.

What is best though is not always the easiest and that is where it gets hard for you and I. We have to trust Him even in the hard times when life isn't exactly easy or fair. We have to endure what life throws or way knowing that God will use it to change us into the image of His son. James 1:12 says, "Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him."

The meaning of life: Know Him, Trust Him, Endure til the end. He loves you so much!

There's an old chorus that sums it up best:

"Trusting as the moments fly,
Trusting as the days go by,
Trusting Him what'ere befall,
Trusting Jesus, that is all."

Be assured of His love and of mine. Kari