Glory In This!

I’m at my home on Monday morning, listening on line to the Memorial Service for Christopher Laurie who was taken home to heaven on July 24th, 2008 (It’s amazing…check it out: www.harvest.org). My heart is so blessed, so full of emotion, flooded with sorrow & joy for the Laurie’s…it is really hard to articulate in words! As I’m listening to the music, the tributes, and the blessings we have in our Lord, I’m reminded of the thus saith the Lord in Jeremiah 9:24 which says, “But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I Am the Lord, exercising loving kindness, judgment and righteousness in the earth, for in these I delight!” What strikes me about this is very simple: Christopher Laurie understood and knew Him & because of that, the Laurie family will be reunited with their precious son & brother someday, Brittnay will be reunited with her husband and Stella will be able to hug her daddy again…all because Christopher understood and knew Him. Now - understood, the reunion will be totally different and beyond our understanding, however, it will happen and it will happen in a totally amazing & blessed way!

The application for us removed, at least physically, from the Laurie’s is also simplistic in nature, yet profound in reality: may we remember our lives are a shadow, a blade of grass that is here and gone & may we as a people who love God solely glory in this: that we understand and know Him! You see, death is an eye opener, no question about it! And in this eye opener, may we hit our knees and praise and glorify our most precious God, through our Savior Jesus Christ as we are moved by the Holy Spirit of Promise. And further, may we take this truth we’ve been given and share this Love Story everywhere we go! Lord bless your day…

Pastor Randy