This morning’s talk among the pastors of Mount Gambier revolved around those who had prayed for our conversions and those who had been models of Godliness for us as we grew in our Christian lives.
Our different stories revealed the same grace mediated through a great diversity of relationships and circumstances.
God is pleased to work through human interactions to bring us into His family, and to nurture us when we are there.
It also showed that sometimes those who nurtured us finished consistently, and other times they stumbled and resumed the race, while others fell and did not end well.
Which causes us to recall that our loved ones and friends may be the means by which we are called and discipled into the kingdom, but our real Saviour and role model is Jesus.
As we prayed to give thanks to God for His love and for these people, we also were moved to give thanks for those in prior generations who prayed for, witnessed to, and modelled the Christian life for our heroes.
This great flow of grace rolls down generations, and we are the current recipients of it.
We are also called to continue that witness to the generations that follow us.
We are also called to live in a way that will not discourage those who follow from living for Christ.
The work of generations comes to us, but does not end with us.
It continues on.
And for that we prayed with thanksgiving, and for the grace and strength needed to pass on what we have received.
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This is the challenge we face, and as we can not do this on our own we must continue to thank God, and our Christian family who support us as we live this example.