This coming Lord's Day, we will be celebrating Fathers and Mothers with a picnic and BBQ immediately after the service. I hope you can make it to this, and I hope that if you have friends and loved ones (especially fathers and mothers) who might enjoy it, you will encourage them to come.
I was thinking about dads and moms this morning. And I was thinking about yesterday's sermon - A Mother's Wisdom, from John 2. For some reason, the Lord has really been hammering me about Mary's words in vs. 5, "Whatever He says to you, do it." And as I pondered it this morning, it suddenly struck me that His Father said the same thing. Remember when that voice from heaven said, "This is my beloved Son, HEAR HIM?"
It's common for we who are parents to say to our children, "Listen to me!" But both Jesus' father and mother said the same thing - "Listen to Him!"
I know, I know, you just heard this message yesterday in church. But I guess the Lord wants me to repeat it today. Are you listening to the Savior? When He speaks through His word, are you listening? Are you doing what you hear Him say? Sometimes we get the impression that it's difficult to obey the Lord, but remember how He described it in Matthew 11:30 - "my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
He did all the heavy lifting on the cross. May God help you and I to do our part now in living a life of obedience and submission to Him Who loved us that much.
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