Finding is Easier When We Know Where to Look

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My mother stayed with our daughter Mary Evelyn and her family yesterday afternoon, so Ray and I could go to the funeral for my friend’s brother. We headed out straight from church to the tiny community of Lillamay. Lillamay is a few miles from my hometown of Ashland City, Tennessee.

We passed by the pretty Cheatham County Courthouse in Ashland City when we headed back home in the late afternoon.

Ray and I decided that it was worth the extra 15 minutes to try a new route through the country. The green Tennessee countryside was beautiful. The Sunday afternoon drive with little traffic was pleasant.

We experienced an unexpected joy on this new route. We passed country church after country church. Since Sunday morning worship time at our church is usually over shortly after 11 a.m., many of the churches we passed still had packed parking lots. I was encouraged that so many people were at church yesterday morning.

The funeral service was in yet another country church. My friend told me how much that church had meant to her brother. The minister told us what her brother had meant to the congregation. He told how her brother had used his skills to help with their new fellowship hall. He told how her brother looked up the passages the minister mentioned in his sermons.

My friend’s brother and the people in the churches we passed had something important in common. They knew where to go to find answers for the most important issues of life. In the books of the prophets in the Old Testament, God told the Israelites over and over again to quit trusting in worldly stuff. God told them that the only solid place to put our trust is in God alone.

Many people look to government and to politicians for answers. God’s Word says something very different.

Do not trust in princes,
In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.
His spirit departs, he returns to the earth;
In that very day his thoughts perish.
How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
Whose hope is in the Lord his God,
Who made heaven and earth,
The sea and all that is in them;
Who keeps faith forever . . . .
Psalm 146:3-7

Many people look inside their own hearts for answers. God’s Word says something very different.

An arrogant man stirs up strife,
But he who trusts in the Lord will prosper.
He who trusts in his own heart is a fool,
But he who walks wisely will be delivered.
Proverbs 28:25-26

Many homeschooling mamas are afraid that they are missing something important when they homeschool. God tells us how to be sure we and our children have everything we need to learn.

Grace and peace be multiplied to you
in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;
seeing that His divine power has granted to us
everything pertaining to life and godliness,
through the true knowledge of Him who called us
by His own glory and excellence.
2 Peter 1:2-3

“Everything pertaining to life” — now, that’s what I call a complete syllabus!

 

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