FIRST
There are seniors who are living on the streets, eating from garbage cans, sleeping under bridges, dressing in rags, fending off attackers, sweltering in the heat, suffering sickness and injury, lonely and alone. There seniors who are living with family, being abused verbally, emotionally and physically.
However, everyone in this room has a safe home, good food, a clean room, comfortable bed, air conditioning and heating, medical attention, friends, concerned staff, social and spiritual opportunities.
Everyone here is abundantly blessed.
SECOND
However, everyone in this room has a safe home, good food, a clean room, comfortable bed, air conditioning and heating, medical attention, friends, concerned staff, social and spiritual opportunities.
Everyone here is abundantly blessed.
SECOND
There are seniors who do not know that life has a spiritual dimension. The world is looking for a solution to life's problems, but they do not know that the fundamental need of all people and the fundamental answer to all problems is spiritual. God created us to be spiritual people.
I would not ask a blind man to describe a sunset, a deaf man to describe a song, a man without taste buds to describe a taste, yet people without spiritual awareness are always explaining life. People want solutions to problems but they want to leave out the most important factor of life and existence, a relationship with God.
1 Corinthians 2:14
14 But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
There are those who are living without spiritual knowledge or spiritual counsel. There are those who are relying on the natural rather than the Supernatural to solve their problems and answer their questions.
However, everyone in this room has the advantage of hearing the message of God's word, God's answers to life's problems, God's direction for lost souls, God's comfort for broken relationships, God's promise for a brighter tomorrow, God's provision for eternal life. Everyone here knows that faith in Christ's death and resurrection gives present love, joy, peace and eternal life.
God will not only move us from the realm of the simply natural to the spiritual, He will move us from the realm of the carnal believer to the spiritual believer.
1 Corinthians 2:15
15 But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
1 Corinthians 3:1-3
1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
You can spend time reading, listening to Scripture, meditating, sharing with others. You can spend time seeking God and focusing on His truth. You do not have to live your life in the lowlands of the natural, you can move to the higher ground of spiritual reality. You do not have to continue as a babe in Christ, you can move into maturity and purity.
Everyone here is abundantly blessed.
Everything may not be the way you want it, but you have so much more than so many others in this world. Give thanks for what you have and seek God for what He wants you to have in the life to come.
I would not ask a blind man to describe a sunset, a deaf man to describe a song, a man without taste buds to describe a taste, yet people without spiritual awareness are always explaining life. People want solutions to problems but they want to leave out the most important factor of life and existence, a relationship with God.
1 Corinthians 2:14
14 But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
There are those who are living without spiritual knowledge or spiritual counsel. There are those who are relying on the natural rather than the Supernatural to solve their problems and answer their questions.
However, everyone in this room has the advantage of hearing the message of God's word, God's answers to life's problems, God's direction for lost souls, God's comfort for broken relationships, God's promise for a brighter tomorrow, God's provision for eternal life. Everyone here knows that faith in Christ's death and resurrection gives present love, joy, peace and eternal life.
God will not only move us from the realm of the simply natural to the spiritual, He will move us from the realm of the carnal believer to the spiritual believer.
1 Corinthians 2:15
15 But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
1 Corinthians 3:1-3
1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
You can spend time reading, listening to Scripture, meditating, sharing with others. You can spend time seeking God and focusing on His truth. You do not have to live your life in the lowlands of the natural, you can move to the higher ground of spiritual reality. You do not have to continue as a babe in Christ, you can move into maturity and purity.
Everyone here is abundantly blessed.
Everything may not be the way you want it, but you have so much more than so many others in this world. Give thanks for what you have and seek God for what He wants you to have in the life to come.
