Sunday Reflection

THE FUTURE of the human family rides on...a promise spoken and not forgotten. A man named Abraham strode off into his unpredictable future as he gambled on the reliability of a promise uttered by a Presence he had scarcely begun to feel. And so the new possibility for history began. Moses tried to get a better fix on the identity of this Presence...“What is your name?” he dared to ask. And the answer came:...“I am he who will be there with you.” (Exodus 3:14)...Then a man from Galilee talked to his friends about sealing this ancient promise in his blood and a day later he spilled it.. on a mound they called Golgotha. “I am he who will be there with you” was there with us, dying, then rising, and then being with us to the end of the world...Human destiny rests on a promise freely given and reliably remembered. Whenever you and I make and a promise we are as close to being like God as we can ever be. When you say to anyone that you will be there with [him or her or them], you are only a millimeter beneath theangels.

— Lewis Smedes

H/T Redeemer Presbyterian, Manhattan

SOLOMON SERMON:  Having a Godly plan as a mom.