Spiritual Lessons from Everyday Objects

I had asked the ladies last week to bring something with them this week that had helped them with some kind of spiritual lesson, most brought something but I want to tell you about just two. Betty brought a spoon that Lorraine (who had been our timbrel leader) bought each of the timbrel members. It reminded her of Lorraine and her selfish devotion to her brothers and sister in Christ, and also to the lost. This has reminded one of our ladies reminded of the tale of the people who ate from long spoons, the difference between the selfish, greedy power driven people and those who think of others. (This is adapted from the original story, The parable of the long spoons) imagine two villages one long gone all the inhabitants had starved to death, the other thriving on love and devotion to one another and caring for each other who had one thing in common, they all had sat around a communal pot of food with long spoons. The people of the selfish village tried hard to feed themselves but they never managed to get the spoon to their mouths and it was not long before they had all died. The other village sat around a communal pot with long spoons and they soon learned to fed one another and so they grew strong. Lorraine was a child of God who put others first, was willing to use her spoon to fed others and those of us who were privileged to know her will always remember her selfless acts of love and service to the Lord Jesus. The next time you stir your tea, or use a spoon for your desert remember the village of the selfless people and ask God to help you too to be His servant to His body the church and to the lost souls of the world.

Pat brought a letter from the king that had been sent to her grandmother in 1939 and signed by his majesty. How wonderful to personally have words from a king and signed by them it was certainly a treasure to have but we all have access to words written by a King if we would only avail ourselves of them. The Holy Bible is the inspired word of God and available to all and God is King of kings and Lord of lords, He is sovereign over all.

2 Timothy 3:16  All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. 

 The word from king George V1 would have been encouraging and uplifting and certainly worth saving but the word of God has an everlasting value, King Georg's words will eventually fade, be destroyed or lost but God's word is eternal and we will do well to immerse ourselves in the study of it in order that we may know how to live for God and how to serve Him.

I brought to the meeting a loaf of bread, which always to me is a reminder that Jesus is the Bread of life, it is He that sustains us and keeps us, we get all our spiritual nourishment from Him.