Front Generation to Generation
Text for Sermon: Psalm 78:1-7
Family Reunions are important. Special family reunions are especially important. Grandma’s 80th birthday, mom and dad’s 50th anniversary, two Tolsma weddings in two weeks. It is important to mark and remember special moments where we see God’s hand and God’s special grace in our lives.
In the next eight days three families in our church are going to celebrate a 90th birthday, Grete Einfeld, Joyce Honcoop and Gert Huisman. That’s a big deal.
You all blessed Phama and me with a generous gift of two nights in La Connor, WA on the occasion of my 40th anniversary of my ordination. We used that gift two weeks ago to celebrate our 45th wedding anniversary. Special events and milestones are important and should be celebrated.
We are celebrating 125 years as a congregation. What are we celebrating? 125 years of turning the page on a calendar? 125 years of doing what churches do? 125 years of all our good efforts and work and ministry?
No, we are celebrating 125 years of God’s greatness, goodness, grace and mercy. 125 years of God’s faithfulness, God’s provision, God’s kindness. We give Him all the glory, all the praise, all the credit. It is all about Him, all His doing. If God had not done this it wouldn’t have happened.
We don’t sing great is our faithfulness, but great is thy faithfulness, morning by morning, day by day, year by year.
God is sovereign over time and history, it is all His. God ordains all that happens in time and history. God directs the course of all events in the world and in our individual lives.
The milestones in our lives are evidence of God’s greatness, goodness and grace. They are, as I like to say and remind you, they are cause for worship, cause for pausing to give thanks and giving glory to God.
This is His church, and it exists for one primary purpose, to glorify Him and bring Him glory.