FRIDAY SERMON: One chair’s journey | National Lifestyle
“Whatsoever is very good and fantastic is a reward coming down to us from God our Father, who developed all the lights in the heavens. He never changes or casts a shifting shadow.” — James 1:17 (NLT)
Some chairs are fantastic for more than just sitting on.
When I was a young lad, my maternal grandmother, who lived in Vance, South Carolina, obtained a residing home suite from a neighborhood home furnishings store. The cause I recall it so well is simply because she put it in her official dwelling area — the front space she identified as it — and instructed us not to sit on it. She reserved this for business, which she not often experienced. The suit contained a couch, two chairs, a coffee table, and two conclusion tables.
Following my grandmother died, Mom and her sister divided the dwelling place suite. Mom took the sofa and the chairs, and my aunt received the tables. Mother didn’t like all white furnishings, so she had it recovered. When Dad retired, he and Mother moved into a lesser home that didn’t have area for the residing area suite. Mother passed it alongside to me.
My spouse and I held my grandmother’s home furniture for a number of yrs until we moved into a scaled-down put. We saved the couch and chairs for a time but inevitably concluded we’d likely never ever reside in a residence large more than enough for them yet again. Reluctantly, I determined to provide the sofa and matching chair, but saved a single chair for sentimental causes.
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The chair now sits in our den and isn’t utilized as a official piece of furnishings any for a longer time. The grandboys and other people sit on it, and indeed, issues have been spilled on it, leaving stains we just cannot take away. I’m sure if the chair could inform me about its journey, it would share factors even I really don’t know. A single thing continues to be: it is liked for whom it belonged to. It was a present from a loving grandmother and then a mother.
We by no means know wherever our daily life journey will consider us. Frequently, it consists of sicknesses, marriage problems, monetary crunches, emotional struggles, death, improve, and rough decisions. But James offers us comforting assurances. All the superior factors in existence — and I may include the not-so-good items — finally occur from a loving God who provides or enables them into our lifetime journey. And this God does not transform in His viewpoint toward us.
God enjoys us ahead of we’re born, and absolutely nothing will alter His enjoy for us. He normally is effective for the very good of His little ones — whether or not we see it — and He gives us His Spirit forever to guide us along life’s journey.
So, recall, where ever your lifetime journey normally takes you, God remains by your aspect.
Martin Wiles is Handling Editor of Christian Devotions and a proof-editor for Courier Publishing. His get the job done is featured at www.lovelinesfromgod.com.
