Thought for December 7, 2024

  •  1787: Delaware is the first state to ratify the Constitution
  • 1877: Edison demonstrates the phonograph for the editors of Scientific American
  • 1934: Wiley Post discovers the jet stream
  • 1941: A Day in Infamy--Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
  • 1963: First use of the instant replay machine--Army/Navy football game
  • 1967: Otis Redding from Macon Georgia records "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay"
  • 1985: Auburn's Bo Jackson wins the Heisman
  • 1995: "The Grateful Dead" break-up
  • Born: Madame Tussaud, Eli Wallach, Ted Knight, Ellen Burstyn, Harry Chapin, Johnny Bench, Larry Bird, Terrell Owens, Luke Doanld, 
  • Died: Cicero, William Bligh [HMS Bounty], Rube Goldberg, Thornton Wilder, Beatrix Loughran [3 Olympic Gold in figure skating], Lee Roy Yarbrough, Harry Morgan, Four Medal of Honor recipients at Pearl Harbor [Mervyn Bennion, Herbert Jones, Thomas Reeves, Franklin Walkenburgh]
Thought:
Today is a day that will live in infamy. So said President Roosevelt following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Many of us have been there. We have stood over the Arizona. We have seen the film and the movies. Today, I am remembering those whose lives were changed forever by that event. Men and women left their homes for jungles and islands. People sacrificed their lives. Many returned from Europe and the Pacific with mental trauma that lingers and physical wounds that would not heal. Grateful for those who served in Europe and the Pacific and for those that serve today.

Finishing 1 Corinthians 13 today, 13:9-13. The first part of the chapter describes the perfect love that was lived by Jesus and which is the goal for which we strive. Now Paul reminds us that in this life, perfect love is hard to achieve, probably impossible to live. Why? Because today we know in part and we see dimly. Praise God, the day is approaching when the partial will end and the perfect will reign. We will see Him face to face. And we will understand perfectly. We are encumbered by the flesh today, but when He comes we will have glorified bodies that see and understand perfectly. Until that day, we trust in faith, we hope with assurance and we love as best we can using Him as the example. 

Now notice, faith, hope and love, but the greatest is love. Why? When the perfect comes, faith will not be needed for faith will have achieved its purpose. When the perfect comes, hope will not be needed for all of our hopes will have been realized--the blessed hope of eternal life with Him. But, love will still abound, for God is love. His very character is love. And when the perfect comes, we will be like Him. 

Until that Great Day, keep the faith, anchored by hope and filled with love. 

Blessings
Larry

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