Friday June 10

So, it is here, the last official day of school for us staff and teachers.  It has been a wonderful year, really.  Trying in that about 10 students make it difficult.  But that is why I am here, to try to make a difference in their lives.  I hope that I have.  


We seem to so focus on the basic needs of survival and the next few steps of our developmental ladder, so much so that we often lose sight of our ultimate need of self actualization.  Our Lord and God came to earth as a humble man so that He could show us the Way to go and lead us as He went the way to back to God.  Jesus truly did "know the way, show the way, go the way" as the greatest leader and teacher of all time.  He taught us to worship and obey God in reverential fear and love.  Jesus provides the connection and linkage so that we can have the power of the Holy Spirit in us moment to moment.  With the two legs of Faith and Salvation, we can come to know God's love.  Then all things are possible.


Today's mediation: (from F. B. Meyer's great works)



June 10


GOD'S PROVIDENTIAL CARE
"Seek not what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you."-- Luk_12:29-31.


AT THE time when our Lord spoke these words, the fields of Palestine were carpeted with wild flowers, and the air was redolent with their fragrance, bespangling the pastures, clustering in the hedge-rows, and hiding in the woodland glades. Theirs was as careless a life as that of the birds which were flying overhead. "They toil not, neither do they spin." For some plants, like the exotics of the greenhouse and nurseries, there must be extreme care and expense in their cultivation, in the provision of heat and the experienced skill of the horticulturist. But our Lord was not alluding to these, but to the flowers of the grass, which grow amid the wilds of nature, or in the gardens of the poor, and to Him these were very beautiful.
This prodigious growth teaches us that God loves beautiful things, and expends thought and skill in their production. He might have made the world without a daisy, and human life without the beauty of childhood. But since He clothed with beauty the short-lived flowers of the wilds; the ephemeral insects of a summer day; the shells of the minute creatures that build up the solid fabric of the rocks--surely this prodigality, this lavishness, this prolific superabundance of creativeness, must mean that He can and will withhold no good thing from them that trust Him.


Of course we must fulfil our part! We are not to be careless and improvident; we must certainly sow and reap, and toil and spin; but when we have done all, we must rely upon our Heavenly Father whose good pleasure it is to give, believing that it is vain for us to rise up early, and sit up late, and to eat the bread of sorrows, for our God will give us all that we need, even whilst we sleep. He will not allow His trusting children to starve, or to go unsheltered, unclothed, and unshod. "Fear not, little flock," says the comforting voice of the Good Shepherd, "for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom."


PRAYER
Gracious Lord, grant to me, Thy poor needy creature, sometimes at least to feel, if it be but a small portion of Thy hearty affectionate love; that my faith may become more strong, my hope in Thy goodness may be increased, and that love, once kindled within me, may never fail. AMEN.


God bless you and keep you, may His loving goodness increase your faith, give you hope, and fill your spirit with His Love.