Tuesday 12/8/15 The Big Trip (6)

Dear Father in Heaven: I love You and I give You all  honor and glory for looking after me and also those who mean so much to me. Thanks for saving my soul and blessing me with Salvation through Jesus and The Cross of Calvary. Please help me to spread the Word of Jesus Christ to the unsaved. Help us also to get Bibles into the hands of those who will use them. Please help me now with the daily message and then please  help me to get it dispatched. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters: It is another beautiful day here at the Southern Location of the North Pole. Every day like this is a day nearer to spring. I am excited about the Big Trip this year, although being Donkey Dan, I am sort of getting tired of eating hay and sleeping in the barn. Let me get to the message.

Tuesday: December 8, 2015: The Big Trip by Donkey Dan (Day Six)

Luke 1:38 - "I am the Lord's servant," Mary answered. "May it be to me as you have said." Then the angel left her. 39 At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea, 40 where she entered Zechariah's home and greeted Elizabeth. 41 When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. (NIV)

Brothers and sisters, this is some really exciting scripture. It points out a few things to me. First, her answer to the angel Gabriel. "I am the Lord's servant!" Brothers and sisters, above all else and above everybody else, we should love our Lord Jesus, and above all others we also need to be His servant. He is not our servant, we are His or should be. We should also be a servant to others, many others. Also I want you to think of this, when you are indeed serving others, and doing good toward others, is that not also being a servant for Jesus Christ? I want you to think about that. How do you serve the Lord by serving others? I think of our trash people. We have three gentlemen and one lady on our trucks, and I am telling you they are there in all kinds of weather. How about our police and firefighters and all those first responders? And our military people, how many holidays have they spent away from their families while protecting us from the bad guys? Again I ask you, when serving Jesus, are you doing some of that by serving other people, maybe even people who hate you?

So Mary was excited to be a servant for Jesus, and she was so excited that she went to see her relation Elizabeth who was in her sixth month in the motherly way. And remember that Elizabeth was serving God also for she was carrying the baby which was to be the pre-runner for our Lord Jesus. And when she heard the good news, John, the Baby in the womb, must  have also heard it for that Baby leaped for Joy. Now I do want to point this out. The Baby in the womb of Elizabeth was in the second trimester and we have doctors aborting babies long past that sixth month. So here we have an older lady and a teenage lady who have two things in common. Both are carrying babies who will serve God and both are really and truly servants of our Lord God. Someone shout Amen. Take a look at this.

Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart. I appointed you as a prophet to the nations." (NIV)

God created each and every one of us, and he knew and knows all of us. Before He placed us in the womb, He knew and knows what His plan was for us. Will we follow His plan? I can't help but wonder, how many presidents, how many pastors, how many orchard workers, how many servants of God have been murdered in a process that here in America we call abortion? If we don't have enough truck drivers and we don't maybe it was caused by abortion. If we don't have enough good school bus drivers, maybe that was also caused by abortion. If your trash stands uncollected at the end of your driveway, maybe that should be blamed on abortion. Our president, President Obama, refers to himself as a Christian, yet this leader of the free nation, supports abortion. Is that being Christian? NOT IN THIS WRITER'S OPINION. IN FACT, HE COULD SIGN AN ORDER TO STOP IT, SO IN MY MIND OUR PRESIDENT IS AS GUILTY OF MURDER AS THOSE TWO FOLKS WHO DID THE SHOOTINGS IN CALIFORNIA LAST WEEK. Do any one of you think like I do on that one? Okay, time to move on today, and when I think of how I have been over the years, I am happy to say, "He's Still Workin' On Me."

He's Still Workin' On Me (Joel Hemphill)

He's still workin' on me
To make me what I ought to be.
It took Him just a week to make the moon and stars,
the sun and the earth and Jupiter and Mars.
How loving and patient He must be!
He's still workin' on me.

He's still workin' on me
To make me what I ought to be.
It took Him just a week to make the moon and stars,
the sun and the earth and Jupiter and Mars.
How loving and patient He must be!
He's still workin' on me.

Dear Father in Heaven, I am so happy that after all these years You are still willing and also able to work on me. Please, Lord, help me for as we age we shift gears, but we do still want to work for You, and yes, in this home, we also want to be Your servants. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Now please go forth loving and serving Jesus. Love ya.

Pastor Dan

He's still workin' on me
To make me what I ought to be.
It took Him just a week to make the moon and stars,
the sun and the earth and Jupiter and Mars.
How loving and patient He must be!
He's still workin' on me.