Friday, July 9, 2004

Honor everyone. Love the family of believers. Fear God. Honor the emperor.
(1 Peter 2.17 NRSV)

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I read sometime back about the male African hornbill bird. When his mate is about to lay eggs, the male hornbill seals her up with mud inside a hollow tree, leaving a tiny hole for her beak. He then works nonstop feeding her and their four chicks. By the time mom and babies are ready to break free of their sealed home, dad is usually dead from exhaustion.

Some human dads can relate to that. Single moms can relate even more. The future is scary. You may have read that thirty years ago it took an average young person only 4.5 years to reach his father's income level. Today, it will take the average young person 17 years.

Or, put another way, a young man of 19 leaving his parents' home in 1960 earned, by the time he reached 30, almost a third more than his father earned ten years earlier. But today a 30 year old male earns 10 percent less than his father earned the same decade earlier.

We live in a scary world. It matters not what your mission is. It may be as a businessperson. It may be as one beginning a new job. It may be as one who is dealing with the ravages of aging. Or it may be as one who is simply seeking to be a faithful disciple of Christ in a confusing and confused world. Whatever our mission may be, the future is certain. With Christ in our hearts, in our daily journey and in our prayers, we have the certainty of be apart of God’s heavenly kingdom.

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Lord Jesus, thank you for helping me be apart of God’s family. Amen.

Ron Newhouse

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