Weekly Message
May 25, 2014
No Life Without The Son
Here we are already on Memorial Day weekend. When I was
younger, this weekend would not arrive for another week. Traditional Memorial
Day, or “Decoration Day,” was May 30. The date was changed in order to
facilitate another three-day weekend for government workers. But this isn’t my
topic for today’s message, only a bit of interesting trivia.
So again, it’s Memorial Day weekend and we must wear sweaters
and jackets when venturing outside. My heater has run every night since turning
it on last fall. It’s been that cold. Fog, thick cloud cover and low air
pressure tend to cause the “blues,” a condition much like mild depression.
But once in a while, the sun pops out and our lethargy and
melancholy instantly disappear. I’m sure everyone experiences this. Even
plants, those bellwethers of change, exhibit near-instant response to the sun
or lack of it. Plants need sunlight in order to fulfill their life purpose,
that being to manufacture food and therefore live and regenerate. Some plants
manage to exist in darkness, those being simple organisms such as mildew,
various spores and some fungi. However, even these, take their nourishment from
other organisms that did indeed get their nourishment from the sun. Nothing can
exist for long without the sun.
This unrelenting stretch of dark, damp weather has turned me
into a weather junkie. I check a number of weather forecasts daily and even
monitor the long-range forecast for the northeast. Did you know that even the
long-range predictions change regularly? And sure enough, when I look at the
forecast for the next several weeks and see that it’s gloomy, I immediately
become glum. But when the next two weeks are filled up with cheery sun icons, I
become cheerful. That’s how much the sun affects everything about us.
Nothing can live without the sun. Neither plant nor animal.
Likewise, our spiritual lives depend not upon the star we know as the “sun,”
but upon the son of God. Without the son, there is no path to the father.
Without the son in our lives, we cannot come to God. In fact,
as one-third of the triune God, or the Holy Trinity, the Son was given the task
of creating the earth and everything in and on it, including us. John 1:3 says,
“All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came
into being.”
Also, John 5:21 says, “Indeed, just as the Father raises the
dead and gives them life, so also the son gives life to whomever he wishes.”
Jesus is the son and he gives life to whomever he wishes. So I say again, we
cannot live without the son. Knowing this, doesn’t it seem wise to live so that
the son will wish to give us life? Of course it is.
So study the word as presented in the bible. And do your best
to live by the instructions therein. And if you haven’t already asked the Son
to come and be with you, you can do it with this prayer or one like it:
“Oh God, I know I’m a sinner and I’m sorry for my sins. I
want to turn from sin and to be forgiven. I believe that Jesus Christ is your
son and that he died for my sin and the sins of all, even those yet unborn. I
believe you raised Jesus from the dead. I accept Jesus Christ as my savior and
ask that through his sacrifice, my sins are forgiven. I ask that you send your
Holy Spirit into my life to comfort and guide me. In Jesus name. Amen.
