Are you scattered, rushing? Are you content? Notice how you are feeling and then turn to this text.
My beloved Attleboro friends, my heartfelt sisters & brothers in Christ - I want you to know, to
really know and to be genuinely engaged by, the whole of God’s Word. Genesis to Revelation.
I want you not to skip over parts as if they don’t apply or because they seem too familiar.
Instead, I hope & pray that you’ll find that everything in God’s words is so beautifully integrated
and important to build your lives upon. And the lives of your children and grandchildren. And the
lives of their children and grandchildren!
I want you to know and experience more about prayer. Not just formal prayer, but free, flowing
and spontaneous prayer. Not just a few minutes in prayer, but sustained times in prayer.
Interceding. Praising. Sometimes just being silent. Seeking God’s will above all else.
That’s what I want you to know. (And that’s my paraphrase of Paul’s singular word, Therefore!).
And now, as we all continue to move on with our lives, I want you to know that the words
“chosen and dearly loved” include you. You are chosen! You are dearly loved! Even when…
