Blank Pages
For many years I have kept a journal. I just purchased a new one for the new year. A new year! Like my new journal it is full of “empty pages’- ready to be filled! I’m excited to see what the Lord is going to do this year. Often He gives me a verse or thought to take me into the new year-but this year He did not. But I’m still excited and anticipating what He is going to do. No resolutions- I usually break them before the month is over. I just have a determination to continue on reaching for the “prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus”- Philippians 3:14. Pastor’s message this morning began with: “Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision” then went into Exodus and Deuteronomy on the servant-after serving for 6 years- could chose to go free. If not-if he wished to stay with his master- his master would pierce his ear with an awl- a symbol of ownership. Oh, how I want that! But there is a price. I am reading Elizabeth Elliot’s “Through Gates of Splendor” , the s