Why go to Church??

If you're spiritually alive, you're going to love this! 

If you're spiritually dead, you won't want to read it. 

If you're spiritually curious, there is still hope!  

A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper & complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday.  "I've gone for 30 yrs. now," he wrote, "& in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons.  But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them.  So, I think I'm wasting my time & the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all."

This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor.  It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:

"I've been married for 30 years now.  In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals.  But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals.  But I do know this..They all nourished me & gave me the strength I needed to do my work.  If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today.   Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!"  

When you are DOWN to nothing......God is UP to something!  Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible & receives the impossible!  Thank God for our physical & our spiritual nourishment!

MAY GOD BLESS YOU.

Encourging words...

This morning as I was enjoying my morning coffee and catching up on the morning Facebook news, several post had me thinking about how awesome God really is! As I read this post from my friend Monica, K-Love was playing 'How great is our God'.  I found great comfort and encouragement in it and in the moment I wanted to share.

Sometimes reality has a way of sneaking up and biting us in the backside. And when the dam bursts, all you can do is swim. (Meredith Grey)
Monica's response: I see this statement as very true, and then I see giving it to God, and I believe there is a place in Him where you can go from swimming, to walking on water. We choose what level of rescuing we desire, He can help us "swim upstream" ~ "backstroke" ~ "or walk on water" I am sure I have tried them all, and I would say "Walking on water" is by far the best ~ and brings peace, contentment, and pure joy through the storm.

God is always there when we really need Him and even when we think we don't need Him. He is the greatest life saving device I know. We all have felt like we were floating or drowning in situations too big for us to handle. He can and will rescue us... save us. All you have to do is reach out... cry out.

Do you know My God??