Reunion…. I attended one this evening with my husband. His 40th classmates gathered, remembering and reuniting…
Many weren’t really friends 40 years ago. They shared a classroom and teachers…walked down the same hallways, attended the same school functions and sporting events but never really knowing one another. Not really…
But as adults, we look back with different perspective. We see what we had in common all along….youth.
Some classmates were absent because of choice…simply choosing not to participate. Others just could not because of circumstance. Others still were absent because they are simply gone on. Whether by accident or illness, or even on purpose….
As young graduates, we leave high school and teenage years.. Then what? Life choices get harder and harder.
So it is with life on this earth. Receiving that diploma is only a beginning
And so it is with our life with Christ. Receiving Jesus Christ is a beginning…..
“So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.” (Col. 2:6-8)
As I sat looking out over a room full of middle aged people who received a high school diploma on the same night some 40 years ago, I thought about the years since I received Christ..
In both cases, mistakes have been made, lessons have been learned, lots of growing up and maturing have taken place, perspectives and priorities have been altered…..
I pray we continue to live, and that we continue to be built up in Him.
“….School's out; quit studying the subject and start living it! And let your living spill over into thanksgiving….”(Col 2:7 The Message)
“Let the peace of Christ keep you in tune with each other……. let the Word of Christ--the Message--have the run of the house….. Give it plenty of room in your lives…….let every detail in your lives--words, actions, whatever--be done in the name of the Master, Jesus, thanking God the Father every step of the way…”
(Col. 3:15-17 The Message)
Tonight's reunion was great. But there will be a greater reunion. One day....
