Thoughts for August 27, 2006

Scripture Readings Leading to
Sunday September 03, 2006
2 Corinthians 4 & 5                   God’s Treasure
Luke 18:18-30               The Rich Young Man             

Non-Breakable; now there is a concept.  How many times over the years have we encountered something with the side tag of being non-breakable.  Too often I would guess.  My experience is that everything breaks eventually.  Perhaps the product could be promoted with the phrase almost non-breakable or pretty much non-breakable.  I get a good laugh out of stuff that is supposed to be rough and tough, the best thing on the market place, and then we find out it comes with almost no guarantee or warrantee.  A 30 day limited warrantee and non-breakable status do not go together.  

When I was a young man I believed I was unbreakable.  Most of us feel this way as a youth.  But as we grow and mature we have some hard knocks, make a few dumb mistakes and learn that we too are breakable.  It happens to all of us, none are immune from the tumbles of life.  And yet here is the funny thing; our culture seems to hold to the idea of unbreakable and even promotes it as a goal of a life lived to its fullest.  The other night I had the opportunity to see some of the X-games motorcycle stunt competition.  There were guys flying motorcycles 60 feet in the air, upside down, with out hanging on to the bike.  Most landed safely, a few bite the dirt and were out cold.  Nuts, these folks are nuts.  And yet I know that if some of the stunts I have done in my youth were on national TV you would be saying the same thing.  We all move to the edge of unbreakable at times in our lives; some lose their balance and go on over the edge.  None of us are non-breakable, no matter what we may think.

The Apostle Paul offers to the church in Corinth that we are like clay jars, highly breakable.  And inside these jars is a valuable treasure.  All this is so that the power of God may show through in everything we accomplish.  No matter what happens, even if our jar becomes broken in the course of its useful life, the treasure will remain and be established.  What we believe is this: God’s promise of grace for our sin will not be broken.  We believe life has the last word, not  death.  We believe God offers this extraordinary power to even ones like us.  And when we realize our physical lives are breakable, but that our Spiritual lives are unbreakable, non-breakable, and even come with a guarantee, we are moved just a little closer to home.     Blessings,  Dave Weesner
  
Sunday Worship
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:7-10
Sermon Title: “Not What I Wanted to Hear”