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Listen... Writer Charles Swindoll once found himself with too many commitments in too few days. He got nervous and tense about it. “I was snapping at my wife and our children, choking down my food at mealtimes, and feeling irritated at those unexpected interruptions through the day,” he recalled in his book Stress Fractures. “Before long, things around our home started reflecting the pattern of my hurry-up style. It was becoming unbearable.” “I distinctly remember after supper one evening, the words of our younger daughter, Colleen. She wanted to tell me something important that had happened to her at school that day. She began hurriedly, ‘Daddy, I wanna tell you somethin’, and I’ll tell you really fast.’ “Suddenly realizing her frustration, I answered, ‘Honey, you can tell me – and you don’t have to tell me really fast. Say it slowly.” “I’ll never forget her answer: ‘Then listen slowly.’” * In the hustle and bustle of life, have YOU been listening to your loved ones? And, even more importantly… Have
you been listening... to GOD? God has a message for YOU and for me in His Word, the Bible! It is a message of His great love for us: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). We are lost in our sins, but the GOOD NEWS is that God sent His Son to die on the cross for our sins (1 Peter 2:24). The “GOOD NEWS OF GREAT JOY” is that ALL who will believe in Him (Acts 16:30-31) turn from their sins in repentance (Acts 17:30-31), confess His name before men (Romans 10:9-10), and be baptized (immersed) in the name of Jesus are forgiven of their past sins (Acts 2:38). Then, as one continues to “listen” and "live" according to His Word as revealed in the Scriptures, the blood of Jesus will continue to cleanse that one from sin (1 John 1:7). Listen
slowly…
"Therefore whoever HEARS these sayings of Mine, and DOES them, Listen
slowly… and obey Him! David A. Sargent, Minister Church of Christ at Creekwood * Bits & Pieces, June 24, 1993, pp. 13-14 To Subscribe to "Living Water" send a blank e-mail to:
HTML version: subscribe-livingwater@lyris.dundee.net Follow this link to locate the church of Christ nearest you: www.churchzip.com Archived issues of "Living Water" can be accessed from our website at: www.creekwoodcc.org
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