Sea Turtle

My right knee has been giving me fits, so I spent the morning watching mindless TV resting on the recliner.  I usually watch cowboys, but they weren’t on yet. Too early for cowboys to be up, I guess.  So I watched Ocean Treks, Lifeline Rescue, and SeaWorld animal rescues.  SeaWorld rescued a hatchling leatherback sea turtle who had a deformed shell and couldn’t make it from the nest to the water.  After surgery, medication, and weeks of rehabilitation, the little guy was reintroduced into his natural habitat.  But I began to think.  All of that intense effort, time, and money was spent on a turtle.  What about the little babies who face abortion in New York, right up until the day that they are to be born.  Or if the governor of Virginia had his way, even after they are born.  What if such effort went into cutting the cost of adoptions?  What if everyone focused laser-like attention toward a home for each baby that needed one?  We don’t have to kill babies.  We just need to get the word out.  We just need to mobilize love and compassion, just like SeaWorld does for turtles.  These are real children … children that their Maker loves.  Hey, do we love them too?

William Grant Nelson

Dr. Grant Nelson of Elkton, Maryland passed away yesterday.  He was a great pastor who had a tremendous impact upon my life.  Brother Grant took three of us middle school students to the Bill Rice Ranch in Murfreesboro in 1961.  We loaded up in his 1958 Ford Galaxy and traveled two-lane roads 600 miles to Tennessee.  Four summers later, I surrendered to God’s call upon my life there at the Ranch.  Brother Grant took me to visit Tennessee Temple College, where I enrolled and later met my wife.  Brother Grant was a good pastor, a Godly example, but most of all, he loved the Lord and he loved people.  He would talk to anyone and everyone about their eternal destiny.  Hey, isn’t that what Christianity is all about?  Matthew 22 sums it up like this: love God and love your neighbor as yourself.  Thank you for your example, Brother Grant.  You have entered your reward.

God's Word

I downloaded the Swahili module for my e-sword app, formatted it, and just printed three Swahili “Gospel of John” after supper tonight.  It amazes me to see blank sheets of paper going into my little inkjet printer and coming out with the eternal Word of God printed on it.  I pray that the dear Burundi people that my sister has come across here in Chattanooga will receive God’s Word, understand it, and trust Jesus Christ as their personal Savior.  Hey, have you trusted in Him?  Think about it.