We’ve nearly reached the end of May,
and the Lord has blessed this portion of
this state with some abundant rains with more promised. And the lakes in our
area are full, which means they hold as much as they are planned to hold. "Lakes
at capacity”, is the official report.
That’s just to tell you how things are
at this moment, promising for the growing season by God’s good graces.
The financial pages inform us what CEO’s
are being paid, and from what company. And I, at least, stand amazed at such
amounts. Then I read a thoughtful piece about the reasons for such pay. The
article points out that usually they
are worth every penny because they are men with ideas.
Not only that, but they are people who
know how to put those ideas to work. Thousands of years ago Greek philosopher
Plato said, “Ideas rule the world.” Novelist Victor Hugo has said, “There is
one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come”.
The Church knows this. That is why it
moves from printed page to internet and other modern tools. The Lutheran Hour,
when it began on Radio, was regarded as a passing fad. For example, the Church
has been using radio effectively for years and God has blessed.
Mission work throughout the world happens
through many means, and new ideas often lead to better approaches for telling
the message of salvation, that Jesus Christ died for the sins of the world
giving us the free gift of salvation by faith.
So the Word is planted, the seed is
sown, and “The seed springeth up, he
knoweth not how, for the earth brings forth fruit of itself”. Mark 4, 27.28. And that idea comes from God and is richly blessed.
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