Good day dear friends. Today is the Lord's Day! Let us be in preparation to worship God! If you don't have a church home yet, please feel free to worship with us at First United Methodist Church at 8:30, 10:45 or 11:00, 129 W. Hutchison Street, San Marcos, TX.
I spoke with Athena Reiche prior to her entering for surgery yesterday morning. She was in good spirits and was going to have her gall bladder removed. Surgery went well and she was supposed to be home last evening.
Madeline West fell yesterday at 6 a.m. and broke her arm. She returned back to the hospital after a brief stay in her nursing home because she is unable to care for herself now.
Also, our congratulations to Melanie Roberts and Chris Cunningham who wed yesterday afternoon at 1 p.m. Melanie had been coming to FUMCSM for about two years, but the two will be moving to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida where Chris has his home.
Please keep these two of our sisters and the new couple in your prayers.
Here is our study guide for today:
Sunday: Job 16, 17, 18To what degree is Bildad justified in his complaints against Job?
In today's reading, Job's question about "an Attorney" or someone to plead his case is a shadowing of Jesus that it makes us know the need for God to send His only begotten Son to come into the world for our sake (16:18-22). As for Bildad he feels the need to defend himself against what Job is saying. In his suffering and frustration Job knows his friends may have at first desired to help him, but no find themselves telling him what they believe to be the truth and Job receives these as only verbal attacks from those who should have come to comfort and console.
Bildad responds by saying that he and his friends feel like they're being treated as know-nothings, but argues that they know the "rules" of life, that God extinquishes the light of those who are wicked and it may just be that Job was really one of those all along. We know better, but Bildad does not.
Do you know the "rules" about life and do you freely share them with your friends? Do you not know that perhaps the real "rule" that your friends might be seeking is to know that "God rules" and "God is love" so that we should "love one another as God has loved us."
PRAYER: Help me, O God, to be a true friend to those in need. While it is tempting and easy to share what we believe to be the 'rules' of life, remind us of Your love and Your commandment for me to love others. I pray this in Jesus' name, amen.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!
e.v.
I spoke with Athena Reiche prior to her entering for surgery yesterday morning. She was in good spirits and was going to have her gall bladder removed. Surgery went well and she was supposed to be home last evening.
Madeline West fell yesterday at 6 a.m. and broke her arm. She returned back to the hospital after a brief stay in her nursing home because she is unable to care for herself now.
Also, our congratulations to Melanie Roberts and Chris Cunningham who wed yesterday afternoon at 1 p.m. Melanie had been coming to FUMCSM for about two years, but the two will be moving to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida where Chris has his home.
Please keep these two of our sisters and the new couple in your prayers.
Here is our study guide for today:
Sunday: Job 16, 17, 18To what degree is Bildad justified in his complaints against Job?
In today's reading, Job's question about "an Attorney" or someone to plead his case is a shadowing of Jesus that it makes us know the need for God to send His only begotten Son to come into the world for our sake (16:18-22). As for Bildad he feels the need to defend himself against what Job is saying. In his suffering and frustration Job knows his friends may have at first desired to help him, but no find themselves telling him what they believe to be the truth and Job receives these as only verbal attacks from those who should have come to comfort and console.
Bildad responds by saying that he and his friends feel like they're being treated as know-nothings, but argues that they know the "rules" of life, that God extinquishes the light of those who are wicked and it may just be that Job was really one of those all along. We know better, but Bildad does not.
Do you know the "rules" about life and do you freely share them with your friends? Do you not know that perhaps the real "rule" that your friends might be seeking is to know that "God rules" and "God is love" so that we should "love one another as God has loved us."
PRAYER: Help me, O God, to be a true friend to those in need. While it is tempting and easy to share what we believe to be the 'rules' of life, remind us of Your love and Your commandment for me to love others. I pray this in Jesus' name, amen.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!
e.v.
