Thought for November 7, 2024

•  1805: Lewis and Clark sight the Pacific Ocean
• 1811: William Henry Harrison defeats Tecumseh Confederation at Tippecanoe--becomes presidential campaign slogan--Tippecanoe and Tyler too
• 1814: Chinese convert Peter Wu Guosheng executed after converting 128 family and friends to Christ. Last words, "Heaven, heaven, my true home."
• 1874: First cartoon depicting elephant as a Republican
• 1876: Meharry Medical College opens
• 1880: Edgar Young [EY] Mullins baptized. Became minister, author of Baptist Faith and Message and President of Southern Seminary
• 1916: Jeannette Rankin elected first woman Representative in Congress
• 1918: Robert Goddard demonstrates solid propellant rockets
• 1931: Mao Zedong proclaims Chinese People's Republic
• 1932: First broadcast of "Buck Rogers" on radio
• 1983: Bomb explodes at US Capitol
• 1991: Magic Johnson reveals he has HIV
• 2012: Maine, Maryland and Washington legalize same-sex marriage
• Born: Marie Curie, Leon Trotsky, Billy Graham, Al Hirt, Jean Shrimpton, Joni Mitchell, David Patraeus, Calvin Borel [multiple Kentucky Derby wins], 
• Died: Butch Cassidy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Steve McQueen, Joe Frazier, Janet Reno

Thought:

Read with me Romans 9:23-24 today. We are the vessels of God's mercy, made so that He could demonstrate the riches of His glory. I was not made for my glory and for the glory of anything on this earth. I was made to be a demonstration of God's riches in glory. How does that make you feel. God had many ways of demonstrating His glory--creation declares His glory. But we are His special vessels prepared beforehand [He knew us even before we were conceived and in our mother's womb] to be instruments of His glory. 

So, this makes me ask, how am I doing on being an instrument of His glory, His light, His love. We say that we are all created with a purpose and certainly we are. Each has our own calling, our own gifts, our own talents. But we are all created to be evidence of His glory. This makes me ask, does the world see His glory in me. We used to sing that old hymn, "Let Others See Jesus in You." 

While passing through this world of sin and others your life shall view

Be clean and pure without, within, let others see Jesus in you

You life's a book before their eyes, they're reading it through and through

Say, does it point them to the skies, do others see Jesus in you?

Then live for Christ both day and night, be faithful, be brave, and true

And lead the lost to life and light, let others see Jesus in you.

Keep telling the story be faithful and true

Let others see Jesus in you.

I think this is what Paul was saying in these verses.

Blessings

Larry