March 21: Contentment / Still Sick / When Friendships Fail Us Sermon

CONTENTMENT SCRIPTURES

Job 10:8-12   ‘Your hands fashioned and made me altogether,

And would You destroy me? 

  Remember now, that You have made me as clay;

And would You turn me into dust again? 

  Did You not pour me out like milk

And curdle me like cheese; 

Clothe me with skin and flesh,

And knit me together with bones and sinews? 

  You have granted me life and lovingkindness;

And Your care has preserved my spirit. 

Eph. 1:4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love

Content To Be Me

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest, and most precious thing in all thinking. (George MacDonald)

[excerpted from Contentment: A Matter of the Heart 

by Karen Horsey / Karen's Kreations]

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I love that quote by George MacDonald.    It really nips comparing yourself to others in the bud, doesn't it?  I  never realized that he was one of C.S. Lewis' teachers. 

Still a bit sick.  I think it's a combination cold + spring allergies so I don't want to expose everyone at church this morning.  My husband went early so after I dropped my son off, I came home and    listened to my favorite TV pastor--Dr. Charles Stanley.  His sermons are not academically deep but they are theologically simple and practical with a calm presentation that the Word of God is absolutely true.  

Here are the sermon notes from today's message on Friendships:  When Others Fail Us.

It really touched my heart when he closed his sermon with one of my favorite passages:  Isaiah 43:  1-4

Rest and enjoy the day with your friends and family.  I will do the same and hopefully be much better by tomorrow.