Yesterday we began all of our services including 3 services at Ainsworth and one in Johnstown. Confirmation also met after the Christmas break. Sunday was Epiphany and I had been preaching on A Different Kind of Christmas. This being the twelfth day of Christmas, I continue to talk about making a difference this year in our lives and in the life of the church.
Scriptures were from Isaiah 60:1-6 and Matthew 2:1-12. I focused on the idea of the choices that we have regarding the paths we take. Using Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken, I focused on that we every day are confronted with two paths. One is well traveled and wide leading to Jerusalem and to King Herod. The other maybe narrower leading to Bethlehem and King Jesus. One is the splendor of power, prestige, wealth where the promises that everything you desire can be given to you if you bow before King Herod. The other path leads to a child born in poverty, who appears no different than you and I. But the promise the child gives is that if you believe in him, you will have eternal life now and throughout eternity.
It comes down to the choices that you want to make. Jesus does not promise that you will receive everything that you want, but he does promise to give you what you need to live a life of abundance not of material substance but spiritual substance.
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—/ I took the one less traveled by/ And that has made all the difference”
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