Month: March 2025

Have you found Mr. Wright, as in the Wright Brothers, and he flew the coop?  Or, Ms. Left, as in, she left me already?  Are you waiting to tie the not-so -right-person?  Cut the rope!  Bummer!

If you’re waiting on Mr. Right, the guy that’ll marry you, quick, lasso him immediately and tie the knot!  There’s no reason why you can’t have a serious relationship and why you shouldn’t want one.  It’s like a prelude to our relationship with Christ.  How we treat one another reflects how we treat the Lord, and how the Lord relates to us.’

Probably 70% of marriages fail because one, or neither person is seeking, or able to deliver what matters in the marriage. For example, let’s say, you’re both runners, if your marriage is based on how well you train, how far or fast you can run, or the type of clothing you need for a meet, your marriage will run off course, leaving you in the dust (pun intended).  If you both cook or bake, ingredients are not what’s missing in your relationship unless you’re talking about love, patience, commitment, tolerance, long-suffering, etc.

Everyone wants a marriage made-in-heaven, but remember, you’re living here on earth.  There’s no such thing as a perfect union because no one’s perfect! What y’all should be talking about is how to please God, how to live within His will, how to make amends, how to prefer one another over yourselves (Romans 12:10).

Look at it this way, we’re the Bride of Christ (No, not the bride of Frankenstein), and look at how petty we can be!  Maybe that’s why He hasn’t returned yet!  Were He pulling on His hair, He’d been bald centuries ago!  But “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” (2Peter 3:9).

He loves us so much He’s willing to wait for us.  But time’s running out!  Build a relationship with your spouse NOW on things that matter!  Build it on the ROCK-not Dwayne Johnson, but on Jesus Christ!

Meanwhile, Mr. Right might be late or delayed, or missed the bus, or missed a left turn to your heart, but be comforted knowing that Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father, is never late or lost, won’t skip out on you, and is eagerly looking forward to seeing you at the altar where His love for you is forevermore.

AWAITING HIS RETURN,

Sam

Recommended Song: I’ve Always Loved You Third Day

Television commercials in 1978 showed the Crazy Eddie brand store on TV commercials promoting all kinds of electronics.  The guys on the block were ecstatic.  There were Technic turntables, Dynamo speakers, cassette decks, top-of-the-line tuners, receivers, and amps, to name a few.  The actor, Jerry Carroll, would end by saying, “His prices are insane!!!”

Educators, and others, define insanity as “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different outcomes.”  We sometimes function the same way.  As one of our professors once said, “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” Can’t get different results if doing the same thing all the time.  God says the same thing!

He made with His people, Israel, a covenant in which He’d reveal Himself to them as they walked in His ways according to rituals established, and according to His word.  But He also told them He’d give them a New Covenant.  But they grew comfortable and pleased in their original pact, which could never produce the results contained in the new pact.  In order for the second covenant to go into effect, they had to “Do away” with the first one-which they didn’t, and haven’t.

To know when the new covenant was going into effect, they had to be attentive to His word and His prophets, which they weren’t doing.  The signs were present, but they were absent.

The interesting thing is, even today, not just Israel, but millions of people are still operating under the old covenant and missing out on God’s blessings. What comes to mind is in Bourn Legacy, when Jeremy Renner is trying to get ahold of blue pills unaware, they were phased out long ago.  Likewise, God did a new thing two-thousand years ago and people are still bound by the same old covenant-traditions.  That’s insane!  

So, what’s the big deal with the new covenant? Well, the old one required sacrifices and observances of ordinance. It required rituals and blood offerings and cleansings, etc. It required being “Whole;” not unclean before people and prior to presenting oneself before God. Whereas, changes in the “New,” did away with those things.  Check it out:

“For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect” (Hebrews 10:1).

Everything in the law was a shadow of what was to come.  It was like a rehearsal for the actual show.

“For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins” (Hebrews 10:4).

God promised in Isaiah 43:19:
“Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the deserts.”

“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant I made with their fathers…” (Jeremaih 31:31-32a).

Let’s leave insanity behind!  It’ll only get us to the nuthouse! King Solomon did say, “I went down to the garden of nuts” (Song of Solomon 6:11); were nutty people there?!

 Serving God is like getting a pre-filled-out, pre-approved loan application.  It’s already done!  Christ already PAID the entrance-to-heaven fee!  Discard the rituals! Get rid of the candles, the incense, the potpourri, the long robe, the veils, the ointments, the funny languages, the voices, even the mats and the seances, and everything else you think will draw you closer to God!  Don’t cut yourself, don’t mutilate your body, and no piercings necessary to enter into a new covenant with God!  Only need a seeking and repentant heart.  Sign up NOW!

The Fine Print: “Therefore, by the deeds of the law, no flesh shall be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin” (Romans 3:20).

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FREE-TO-BREATHE,

Sam