This sermon seems to be floating around in my mind with a couple of titles. It was prepared for a funeral I conducted on 3/29/14. I didn't preach in church on 3/30 and didn't get a good recording of my guest.
Just a little
book – devotional book – a reading for each day, tells you a
Bible passage to read, gives you a couple of chapters in the Bible
that it suggests you also read, just a little thing.
Little
kindnesses sometmes make great introductions.
brought me into
contact with someone who loved the Lord and His Word.
not an easy
life, not an easy history
lost relatives,
health, appearance
didn’t lose
Jesus, the bread of life
In our readings
today from Isaiah 25 and 1 Corinthians 15 we saw that when God looks
at life he sees it differently than we do.
eternity
real
life that doesn’t end
hope
future
joy
peace
no
turmoil in the end
supernatural
food that doesn’t perish
That means
something when you have lost family members, friends, even when you
look at yourself in pictures and then look at yourself in a mirror
and wonder if you’ve lost yourself.
Confronted by
our own mortality, we pause and look to the immortal God.
Jesus,
came to live and die for our sakes.
Jesus,
true God and true man, able to do the God thing of taking our sin and
giving us his righteousness.
Jesus,
the one who suffered in every way as we do.
Jesus,
the one who rose from the dead victorious.
One friend, a
close friend, when confronted with death, said it was going to be a
big trip. I wondered at first if he was going to Tahiti. No, a much
bigger trip.
Don’t enter
the trip without the big God, who has loved you and given himself for
you.
Even as we lay
our sister in Christ, Enid Winslow, to rest, we look to the one she
trusted, the Lord who is able to keep her forever. It’s a big trip.
The Lord is good. He knows her destination.
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