Pastor's Corner                                                                                                                  Pen Pal

            Okay, I am talking first to the “more mature-in-age” audience because many in our younger audience will have no idea what I am talking about!  So, bear with me as I share with all of you my latest thoughts.

            When I was just a kid, I loved reading my brother John’s D.C. Comic Book Series,  SUPERMAN©. It was not just because SUPERMAN© was faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.  But it was also his ability to fly at any whim. How cool is that?  But truth be known, I was also really fascinated in the ads within the last few pages of the comic book.  From buying water monkeys, building your own submarine in your backyard kit and learning to be as strong as Charles Atlas ads!  But there was one more ad that I really did reply to several times.  Writing your very own pen pal for just $1. If memory serves me right, I think I sent off five times for a pen pal and never got a response.  Not one.

            Imagine for a minute how disappointed I was during those long hot summers.  Waiting on the doorsteps for the mailman to deliver a return letter from a pen pal. No letter…no response.  The disappointment can still resonate for an adult when sending out a heart felt letter or email to a friend or friends and getting no response. What a chilling feeling that is for anyone.

            The world has been sent a written letter.  Much more than just a letter, it is the most passionate love letter ever written. This letter tells of One who loves so much, He would lay down His life to anyone who responds in love to His letter.  Not only that, but the One who wrote this letter would truly bless anyone that reads His letter and responds with a changed heart.  The greatest pen pal one could ever have, is the very One Who wrote this letter.

            Of course, Jesus is the One who wrote the letter and that letter is the Bible (John 1:1-4;14).  According to the Pew Research Center, 88% of American households have at least 1 to 3 Bibles in the family.  But the question is, how many households respond to this “letter” written to them?  Jesus is waiting to give all those who “respond” a blessing, and that blessing is eternal life.  Revelation 1:3 tells us “Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and heed the things which are written in it; for the time is near.”  I believe it is time to “heed the things which are written.” In other words, respond to the greatest Pen Pal that one could ever have!  The time is truly near.

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Blessings to all,

Pastor Paul