Our son Ron shared at the worship service at Gideon’s Spring. This is one of my favorite spots. It was a place we didn’t discover until we have been going to Israel for several years. For me it is a very “pastoral” setting, a place of quiet beauty and I considered to be a special place for our group to worship the Lord together. And it was that in my view. I enjoyed the worship. But if you were to ask the group, the one thing they might say stood out for them were the swarming gnats that made it difficult to concentrate. You could say there was an “abundance” of distractions.
Nevertheless our son handled it quite
well. After singing several choruses and
hymns he read from John 10 and spoke of the abundance of Christ. One thing I really appreciated about the
message was the use of other passages, particularly Psalm 23, to describe this
abundant life. I do know that our son
and daughter-in-law have been learning this in their own lives, having left his
attorney business in Montana for ministry in Costa Rica. In that light this message was coming from
personal experience.
I encourage you to meditate on Psalm 23 in
this light, as a description of the life we have in Christ, and that we have
this life in abundance. (We happened to think
to do a Facebook Live presentation of this on our FB page, Feb. 19, 2023. You can hear the message and see the dealing
with the pesky bugs.)
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| The right and wrong way for a soldier to remain prepared while he refreshes himself at Gideon's Spring (the Well of Harod) |
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