[Singles] Continuation of Sunday School

[Karen Jakeway]

In my morning devotions I came across this and I felt like it was valuable to all of us.  For those of you who were not in Sunday School, this might not make much sense to you but it is worth hearing anyway.

Pastor James Montgomery Boice had a clear perspective.  In May 2000, he stood before his Philadelphia church and explained that he’d been diagnosed with liver cancer:
                  Should you pray for a miracle>?  Well, you are free to do that, of course.  My general impression is that the God who is able to do miracles—and He certainly can--
                   is also able to keep you from getting the problem in the first place.  So although miracles do happen, they are rare by definition......Above all, I would say pray for the
                   glory of God.  If you think of God glorifying Himself in history and you say, where in all of history has God most glorified Himself? He did it at the cross of Jesus
                   Christ, and it wasn’t by delivering Jesus from the cross, though He could have...God is in charge.  When things like this come into our lives, they are not accidental.  It’s
                    not as if God somehow forgot what was going on, and something bad slipped by...God is not only the one who is in charge; God is also good.  Everything He does is good...If God
                    does something in your life, would you change it? If you’d change it, you’d make it worse.  It wouldn’t be as good.

Eight weeks later, having taught his people first how to live and then how to die. Pastor Boice departed this world to “be with Christ, which is better by far.” (Philippians 1:23)
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