Six Points Church

  • I'm New
  • About Us
    • Who We Are
    • Our Leadership
    • Contact Us
    • Next Steps
    • Church Covenant
  • Services
  • Ministries
    • Kids
    • Youth
    • Adults
    • Worship
    • Prayer
    • Outreach
    • Missions
    • Connections
  • Events
  • Give
  • I'm New
  • About Us
    • Who We Are
    • Our Leadership
    • Contact Us
    • Next Steps
    • Church Covenant
  • Services
  • Ministries
    • Kids
    • Youth
    • Adults
    • Worship
    • Prayer
    • Outreach
    • Missions
    • Connections
  • Events
  • Give

​God with us: Weekly Pastoral Devotional

the stubborn leaf

5/6/2020

0 Comments

 
I have a Pin Oak in my front yard.  It's a cute little tree, apparently planted by a kid who used to live here for an Earth Day celebration many years ago.  I like its location and the shade it provides to the front yard...but there is one thing I dislike about it...its stubborn leaves.  Pin Oaks keep their leaves all winter and only lose them once the new buds push them off.  This means that all winter long I look at a bunch of brown dead looking leaves on my tree and that every Spring I have to pull out the rake (a tool I would normally be done with around November) and rake up all these stubborn leaves.  I am normally the guy out raking while all my neighbors are out putting down mulch.
 
But I respect these leaves.  They don't give up.  They hang on through all those cold winter winds.  They hang on through all that snow and ice.  They hang on when all the other leaves on all the other trees have been bagged up and thrown away.  These little Pin Oak leaves just don't quit.  
 
Jesus taught about a woman who had been taken advantage of.  She did not get justice, not at first, but she demanded it and she DID NOT QUIT!  Every day she fought for justice.  Every day she demanded help.  Every day she called out until she was granted what she deserved.  (Luke 18:1-8).
 
Let us be like this Persistent Widow.  Let us be like this Pin Oak leaf.  We will not give up.  We will not give up on hope.  We will not give up on love.  We will not give up on kindness.  We will not give up on God and His plan for us.  Though some may falter, we will persist.  We will hang on through every storm.  We will hang on through every hardship (including this one).  We will hang on to the promises of God and to His great love!  We will hang on.


In Christ,
Pastor Scott  
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    May 2024
    August 2023
    July 2023
    June 2023
    May 2023
    April 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019

    RSS Feed

Picture
1545 West 226th Street, Sheridan, IN 46069  
317.758.4239​  |
 [email protected]
Need Prayer?