Pastor’s Thoughts

Here is a great line of thinking published in an old Gospel Trumpet that is worth considering. It is simply titled “Get In Tune” and was written by Bro. Dale Oldham.

The church goes marching on. You must march with it or be left behind. Dr. Harold Bosley said in a sermon some time ago, “If your religious faith is going to mean anything to you, it must mean everything to you… If you try to build religion upon part of your life, you will lose it throughout the whole of your life.” He spoke well.

Christ will possess you entirely or not at all. Christian friend, if you have drifted into a spiritual eddy, it is time to take an inventory to see where your trouble lies.

Those who criticize the church instead of working with the church need to re-examine their religion. God would put us in tune with truth and with his Spirit that we might accomplish his will and experience the deepest satisfactions.

Some time ago the newspapers carried the story of a Montana shepherd who spent weeks at a time with only his dog and sheep for companions. In the old chuck wagon were a bed, a stove, a small battery radio, and a violin.

One night a radio announcer in a distant city said to his listening audience, “Friends, out in the mountains is a shepherd who likes to while away the hours playing his fiddle. But he has no pitch pipe, and his fiddle is out of tune. He has sent in a postal card asking that we sound our ‘A’ on the piano so he can bring his fiddle back into tune. So just before station identification, we give that lonely musical shepherd his ‘A’.”

You and I need not stay out of tune with the Infinite nor with his program. Daily our heavenly Father sounds his “A” by giving us the Bible, which reveals his will for us. Let us tune our lives to it. Let us pay the price for success in the kingdom of God.

Forgetting our own comforts, let us give and work for Christ, conquering in the sign of the cross, so that when Jesus comes we may hear him say, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant. Enter thou into the joys of thy Lord.”

May we always be “In Tune”.

Pastor Danny