We are the light of the world. Are you shining?

We’re doing just fine in our old Kentucky home, ours for the past 10 months.  My, how time and life keeps moving ever forward.  Only 10 months?  So short, yet it seems that I have been in our great commonwealth of Kentucky serving as minister and friend at Watterson Trail for much longer.  May God give us many more years of service together for the furtherance of the gospel in the J’Town/Louisville Metro community.

It has been my pleasure to support our local Jeffersontown High School Charger football team the past two Friday nights.  One loss and one win so far.  The team has a lot of potential this year.  We have a new coach and he and his staff are doing a fine job teaching a new system.  The team seems to be picking up on the new system well.  I am enjoying the Charger band (It seems only yesterday that I was on the field with my trumpet or directing the band as drum major).  Their half-time show is getting better and better.  It is good to see so many from the J’Town community supporting the school and the team.  I am also enjoying meeting new friends, taking every opportunity to show and share the love of Christ.  To every Christian and especially to our fellow Christian brethren at Watterson Trail:  Get out and see what God can do through you.  Opportunities are all around us; next door, across the street, at school, in the stands, at the store, up, down, all around.  Live.  Laugh.   Listen.  Learn.  Love. 

I can almost hear Jesus saying it.  

“You are the light of the world.  A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.  Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.  Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.” 

He did say it and Matthew wrote these instructions down in Matthew 5:14-16 in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount.  How about it?

This Sunday morning at Watterson Trail we will conclude our series “More Than Conquerors” with a lesson that asks, “Where am I going?”  Do you know where you are going in your life?  If you continue on the path you are currently on, where will you end up?  Will you be okay there?  Is it where you thought you’d be?  Will those following you be happy about you led them?  I have found that if I don’t know where I’m going, people, circumstances, and things cause me to be tossed here and there.  Isn’t if foolish to live your life without a direction?  What was it that someone said?  “If you don’t know where you’re going, then any road will do.”  Remember the old adage, “If you aim at nothing, you’re sure to hit it.”  Where do you want to go?  Find out.  Take aim.  And get going!  Sunday afternoon at Watterson Trail is special this Sunday (6^th) because we will be singing together psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with melody in our hearts to the Lord.  Come join in.  Have a great rest of the week.  Show some TLC today and every day to those you love and to those who love you.