Blessings to you, family, friends, and followers of BBT.  Here’s your weekly update.

It was a good day at church last Sunday.  Every day that the Lord gives us is a good day, and especially those when we can come together to honor Him and have the opportunity to lift each other up.  Priscilla gave us direction on finding peace of mind through peace with God.  Pastor David spoke from the account of the prophet Jeremiah’s call by the Lord to urge us to here His call on our lives.  When we listen to him and do what he calls us to do we will be unstoppable!

This Sunday I want to share with you from part of my favorite section of scripture.  A while back we talked about the prayer that Jesus prayed for his disciples and for us just before His crucifixion. This week, Linda said something to me that got me thinking about how we are in the world but not of the world.  If you’ve been in church, you’ve probably heard that said many times.  It comes from the things Jesus said in this prayer.  Sometimes when we get weary of all the bad things happening here, we comfort ourselves with this understanding.  We often hear it used to urge us to live a life befitting a child of God.  This too is reasonable, but it falls short of conveying the true meaning in Jesus’ words.  We are not of the world because we have His word in our hearts.  We are in the world because He placed us here and gave us a mission!  We rightly yearn for the time when we will be with Him and all will be made new, but while we are here we have a purpose.  When we embrace it, we will find the joy that He meant for us to have.  I suggest reading the whole chapter so that you will have the context, but we will focus on John 17:13-21.

I hope you are praying for each other this week and staying in touch.  Pray especially for Tim and the rest of the Terrell family.  Cindy says they are bringing him home on Thursday or Friday and they are getting set up to care for him.  The doctors haven’t offered a lot of hope but we know the source of hope and of healing.

Be blessed to be a blessing!

Larry