Knowing God… Pleasing God… Loving God… and Political Inclinations
I know I wrote in my last blog that the next blog would be about “communion.” However I feel I need to write about something else before I address that topic. Now that you have committed your life to God in the receiving of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior to save you from your sin, it is only natural that we want to express our gratitude to God for doing for us what we needed the most, but could never accomplish ourselves. A life of thanksgiving is the appropriate response for such an “out of this world” gift as eternal life. Thinking of the racing analogy again for a moment, and with the 2016 Olympics in Rio recently concluding, that should give us many examples of how we “pace” ourselves for the marathon called “Life,” it behooves us to know further what we should actually be doing during the “meat” of the race. Need a refresher? See the post Et vous pret, Partez and the following blog post Settle In . Since we are racing, we do want to give it as much as we can, but not s