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Wednesday's Word - An Email Devotional - by: Dr. B. Wiley Stephens
One cannot travel two roads at one time.   One must decide on which road to commit to before the journey can be continued.   So in life we cannot have two masters.  In the sixth chapter of Matthew,  Jesus warns us if we try to have a divided loyalty we will love one and hate the other.  He followed this warning by advising us not to worry about tomorrow.   In fact, we create the world we will live in tomorrow by where we commit our loyalty today.   Jesus adds to this advice the lesson that, if loyalty is given to our creator, God will take care of us as he does the birds of the air or the lilies of the fields.  Worry comes from a lack of faith.  And if we have placed that faith in the right place - in God - then we can live with confidence.   We don’t need to worry about tomorrow because we are settling that issue today.

This coming Monday, we will pause as a nation to remember and honor those who gave their lives in service to our nation that we, as well as many others in the world, might be free.  They committed all they were to our nation and the freedom for which it stands.  They gave up their tomorrows that our tomorrows could be free.  We pause to thank God for such loyalty and for the precious gift of freedom they preserved for us.

Memorial Day is a reminder of both the cost of loyalty and the blessings.   May we learn from their example to give the best we have to the highest we know, without regard to the cost.  Let us give all we have, to live as God would have us to live.

May God bless you and yours,

Wiley Stephens

 

May 21, 2008
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