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eHomily  by Pastor Ron...

Pastor Ron

  

 

Joni Eareckson Tada, a quadriplegic, who was paralyzed in a diving accident as a teenager, talks about her wedding day:

 

"I felt awkward as my girlfriends strained to shift my paralyzed body into a cumbersome wedding gown.  No amount of corseting and binding my body gave me a perfect shape.  The dress just didn't fit well.  Then, as I was wheeling into the church, I glanced down and noticed that I'd accidently run over the hem of my dress, leaving a greasy tire mark.  My paralyzed hands couldn't hold the bouquet of daisies that lay off-center on my lap.  And my chair, though decorated for the wedding, was still a big, clunky gray machine with belts, gears, and ball-bearings.   I certainly didn't feel like the picture-perfect bride in a bridal magazine.  I inched my chair closer to the last pew to catch a glimpse of Ken in front.  There he was, standing tall and stately in his formal attire.  I saw him looking for me, craning his neck to look up the aisle.  My face flushed, and I suddenly couldn't wait to be with him.  I had seen my beloved.  The love in Ken's face had washed away all my feelings of unworthiness.  I was his pure and perfect bride.  How easy it is for us to think that we're utterly unlovely-especially to someone as lovely as Christ.  But he loves us with the bright eyes of a Bridegroom's love and cannot wait for the day we are united with him forever."

 

As I have shared in my sermon series on Heaven, we will one day face our Lord as we approach the wedding feast of the Lamb and we will, perhaps, share those same feelings of inadequacy and unworthiness.  Yet, as we fix our eyes on Christ, we will see His love and grace manifest before us.  We will sense in our hearts His total acceptance of us just the way we are.  And we will know in that day the adequacy of the blood shed for us at Calvary.  This is truly the atonement for our sins.  Then we will fully realize our union with Christ in actuality and for all eternity.  This will be the culmination and consummation of our salvation.  What a day that will be!

 

The Apostle John foresees this day and writes these words:

 

"I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.  And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, 'Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them.  They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.  He will wipe every tear from their eyes.  There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.'  He who was seated on the throne said, 'I am making everything new!'  Then he said, 'Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true'" (Revelation 21:2-5).

 

Amen and Amen!!!

 

Blessings,

Pastor Ron

 

P.S. Sunday's sermon is In the Light of the City (Revelation 21). 

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9:30am   Contemporary Worship Service
             Children & Preschool Sunday School
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11:00am Traditional Worship Service
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