Over the top?

Ok I'll admit it, my message Sunday morning may have been a little over the top. My intent was not to necessarily divulge personal information for sympathy but rather to let you know that even pastors are human and subject to problems that everyone else experiences. Not necessarily to the extreme that I did, but people do suffer from all kinds of maladies. Mine just happened to be emotional.

Ok, with that said I wanted to review with you the importance of putting those
"tools" into practice. There was one that I actually left out. Not on purpose of course, but never the less it is important to talk about the thing I that I wished I'd said. And that is, drum roll pleaseeeeee. The one that I left out was the important roll that Scripture plays when we feel stretched to limit and beyond our limit of stress. I'm wondering if you ever have sensed the calm that comes over our heart in times of grief or bewilderment? Or when you don't feel like you can go another step or make another move and Phil. 4:13 pops into your head, "I Can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." How about when you loose you way? What you've never lost your way? It's then that you remember that passage you memorized as a child in what 3rd or 4th grade? "In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths."(Prov. 3:5) Now that will help us get back on track! You see
when we feel like we're on our own, we're really not on our own. Scripture is what helps keep us on track and is probably the biggest tool in the toolbox. Maybe we could say that God's Word IS the toolbox and everything inside are the tools He intends for us to use. He won't mind, He doesn't even care that much if we don't always give credit where credit is due, afterall, "His word never returns to Him void".