OzThoughts. Monday 26th October 2009

OzThoughts. Monday 26th October 2009

Peter’s Second Letter begins with great encouragement for our Christian life at the beginning of this week. This week will no doubt hold many different things for us. For me, and the team of Chaplains, I work with at the hospital, it is “Chaplaincy Week”.

We have prayed the week will bring opportunities to enter into conversation with many others about our work under the theme “Standing by You”. Our prayer is that they might see Christ in us and realise that Christ is there for them.

I see Peter as saying that our lives, yours and mine, should be like that every day of every week “no day will pass without its reward as you mature in your experience of our Master Jesus”.

People should see Jesus present in us and a demonstration that he is available today.
2 Peter 1:1-11 (The Message)
1-2 I, Simon Peter, am a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ. I write this to you whose experience with God is as life-changing as ours, all due to our God's straight dealing and the intervention of our God and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Grace and peace to you many times over as you deepen in your experience with God and Jesus, our Master.
Don't Put It Off
3-4 Everything that goes into a life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God. The best invitation we ever received! We were also given absolutely terrific promises to pass on to you—your tickets to participation in the life of God after you turned your back on a world corrupted by lust.
5-9 So don't lose a minute in building on what you've been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others. With these qualities active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet, no day will pass without its reward as you mature in your experience of our Master Jesus. Without these qualities you can't see what's right before you, oblivious that your old sinful life has been wiped off the books.
10-11 So, friends, confirm God's invitation to you, his choice of you. Don't put it off; do it now. Do this, and you'll have your life on a firm footing, the streets paved and the way wide open into the eternal kingdom of our Master and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

[Listen: Choir: (Original Tune: http://www.salvoaudio.com/audio/music3/mus_4668.mp3
or
Songsters: (New Tune): http://www.salvoaudio.com/audio/music/mus_2453.mp3 ]

Jesus, tender lover of my soul,
Pardoner of my sins, and friend indeed,
Keeper of the garden of my heart,
Jesus, thou art everything to me.

Chorus
Jesus, thou art everything to me,
Jesus, thou art everything to me,
All my lasting joys are found in thee;
Jesus, thou art everything to me.

What to me are all the joys of earth?
What to me is every sight I see,
Save the sight of thee, O Friend of mine?
Jesus, thou art everything to me.

Here I lay me at thy bleeding feet,
Deepest homage now I give to thee;
Hear thy whispered love within my soul;
Jesus, thou art everything to me.
Authors: Edward Henry Joy (1871-1949) (verses),
Arthur Smith Arnott (1870-1941) (chorus).
The Salvation Army Song Book: Song Number: 600

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