Tuesday, September 12, 2023

An Important Person

 

Years ago, my mother was flying back to Maryland from our tiny Chattanooga airport.  As we were walking to the gate (back in the days when you could walk to the gate) she grabbed my arm and excitedly said, “That’s Reggie White!”  And with that, my mother walked right up to him and introduced herself.  She pulled out her little camera and asked if she could get a picture with him.  Good-natured Reggie White agreed and stood up, but my mother had a better idea.  She had my little five-year-old son hold up his small hand in front of Reggie White’s huge NFL-sized hand, and mom snapped the picture.  What a memory!  Hey, we have the chance to interact with someone much more famous than Reggie White every day!  We can get out our Bible or get on our knees and have a personal meeting with the Creator of the Universe.  How exciting that should be for us!  But all too often, we take it for granted.  Hey, let’s renew our excitement to meet with God every morning!  Read His words with the thrill that we should have when we come into the presence with our Maker!  Really, really meet with God this morning!  God said in Jeremiah 29:11-14, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the LORD.”

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