Drippings from the Honeycomb
More to be desired are [the rules of the Lord] than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb. (Psalm 19:10)
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I’ve visited some wonderful libraries in my day. The library in my home town was the old Victorian town hall; a majestic building that inspired the love of reading. I’ve also been able to visit the world-famous Bodleian Library at Oxford. Perhaps my favourite library, built in the 1920s, but designed to look much older, is the Bristol City Centre library. Quite romantically it has three side levels that you access by iron spiral staircases!
Sadly today, though, because of funding cutbacks, woke ideology, shallow books, etc, many libraries are not what they once were. However, there is one library, which while not large, is impressive. God’s library! Throughout the Bible several precious books of God’s are mentioned Here is a library catalogue of God’s library:
We’re excited to welcome a woman into membership this coming Lord’s Day. As always, these are opportunities grant us the opportunity to reaffirm our church covenant with each other. This article is also timely as this Lord’s Day morning we’ll handle the subject of tithing from Malachi.
Continuing in our series on our church covenant (find earlier blogs here and our actual covenant here), we press into 1. 3.6: To contribute cheerfully and regularly to the support of the ministry as the Lord directs and personal circumstances permit, the expenses of the church, the relief of the poor, and the spread of the Gospel through all nations; To be sure, the Lord calls us, His redeemed, in gratitude, to worship and serve Him in our time, treasure and talents. We may not all have as much time, treasure or talents, however, as Christians we all commit to serving Him as personal circumstances permit. There are certain baselines (like the tithe for treasure, Mal 3:10) and sometimes the Lord directs us in more time (full-time ministry, e.g. 1 Ti 5:17) or different giftings (1 Cor 12:11). We may all give of our time, treasure and time in differing proportions, but all give we must. Plenty and want, sickness and heath, may all be limiting factors, however, like the widow who gave all we had (Mk 12:41), we are called to serve the Lord in our time, treasure and talents, aspiring ever more from the basics to serve Him as we can knowing there may be genuine limiting factors. Why do we do this? For the Lord of course. The Lord calls us to love Him by loving His Church, supporting His people and sustaining her worship, and loving others by loving the lost and loving the poor.[1] We rob God when we are not generous with our time, treasure and talents. We also rob others if we don’t by placing undue weight upon the few. And we mustn’t forget we are more blessed if we give than if we receive (Acts 20:35), for giving is to be like God, and if He is our Father, we shall be like Him (1 Jn 3:9–10). How are you using your time and treasure and talents here at MBC? [1] Primarily, I believe that such service should be conducted through local churches, however, it may be done privately as well. |
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