Luke 3
U-Turns to God!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Monday, May 11.
FBC enters Stage 2 today in our reopening plan. Check out our webpage www.newcastlefbc.com to learn more about what that means. If all goes well in our communities, we will move to Stage 3 on May 24. Join me in praying for our communities, state, and national health departments, medical personnel, and first responders who are on the front lines. Let’s be great partners with our communities to the glory of God by being the church every day to people in need!
Why is this so important? So we don’t have to do a U-turn later…
Speaking of U-turns, did you know that is what the word repentance means? Repentance is a word of freedom and love. John the Baptizer said in Luke 3:8, “Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.”
What a beautiful image! John is saying to his audience, don’t assume you are already connected to God, but enter into a relationship with God. Do a U-turn and come home! It’ll become visible in your words and deeds.
Jesus builds upon this image in John 15:16, “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide…”
Both John and Jesus invite us to repent from assumptions and presumptions that keep us disconnected from God’s power and by repenting to produce the good fruit that shows it.
Seize the moment and do a U-turn into the arms of God this morning. No matter what your yesterday looked like, God is waiting for you to U-turn back to Him today. His mercies are new every morning. Welcome God into your new week and watch what He will do in and through you to His glory.
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