And you're receiving this message because you
opted in to be encouraged. I'm thinking today
of Acts chapter 27, verse 18. Acts 27, verse
18 says, We took such a violent battering from
the storm that the next day they began to throw
the cargo overboard. It even goes on to say in
verse 19, On the third day they threw the ship's
tackle overboard with their own hands. The bottom
line is they were throwing over everything they
thought they needed to survive. weeks rent payment,
their food on the table in a few weeks. And it
gets down to that. When it comes to survival,
when it is about thinking and drowning, that's
when people start to think that all the blessings
that they have received aren't the kind of things
that they can't possibly live without. And here
is the reality of it. There's only one thing
we can't live without, and that is an enduring,
eternal, personal relationship with God through
His Son, Jesus Christ. So we don't really need
half the things that the world is so worried
about. I think about Lot's wife, as Sodom and
Gomorrah were being burnt. The angels told her,
don't look back, and she looked back and turned
into a pillar of salt. I think about Job, who
lost everything in his trials, and then God gave
it all back to him in the end. The bottom line
is, we have a lot of things we don't necessarily
need, and we've got to decide what it is that
really pours into our relationship with God,
and that thing we keep. when times get tough,
and everything else is grist for the mill. Everything
else, we let go and let God use it however he
wants. If he wants to take it away, he can give
it again, and we trust him. Upcoming, April 5th,
at New Heights Fellowship Baptist Church, we
have the Grand Prix Race Day. You're welcome
to join us for Race Day. Crowd, cheer on the
kids as they race their cars that they crafted
from scratch, and free lunch.