It’s hard to believe that next weekend is Labor Day weekend already. Kids and parents will have to readjust to a schedule that involves school buses, sporting events, and everything else that comes with the school year. Wednesday nights at Dayton Center Church will become much busier and more noisy with Olympians and Teen Club starting in just one-and-a-half weeks. Before we know it, the leaves will change color and fall to the ground once again. It’s hard to imagine that Fall is coming when we have had such a cool summer. Were it not for a few hot days, we might think we had completely missed it.
How have you spent your summer? Have you done the things you wanted to do? Are there memories that you hope will last a lifetime? Perhaps, moments that you wish you could forget? Or, maybe, you’re just wondering where all the time went. One way or another, life keeps moving forward and we can’t change the past.
We can, however, change the future. Choices we make today and tomorrow will have ripple effects that we may never even see this side of Glory. The question is whether the end result will be for the better or for the worse. Let’s not be short-sighted and think only about the moment, but consider what impact we might be having on our future or on future generations.
Perhaps your mind just raced to politics or federal deficits in the trillions. However, that is not what I am talking about. I’m talking about the little things we can do today that may have life changing results: maybe it is a kind word to a stranger or to one of the many kids who will be here on Wednesday nights, maybe it’s the way you respond to a trial or temptation, or, maybe it’s something that God revealed through a moment of prayer or Bible study that you almost missed because of other things you wanted to do. In all things, let us remember the words of Hebrews 4:16, “Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”
In His grip,
Pastor Decker
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