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I know how you are, I watched as you slept, and kept you through the night. How about that nice breeze that kissed your cheek? Cool and refreshing wasn't it neat! Did you enjoy the morning I prepared for you? A warm sun lit your room, and wonderful smells filled the air. From the flowers and the trees, did you see them out there? Warm like the love I have for you. I made them all, too! As with everything in your life, even during the hardest of strife’s. I was there when you expected it least. To help, lead, to draw you near. For just a moment may I have your ear? No matter how bad things may have gotten for you. I've been here the whole time through. Remember that time you said “So, where were you, when I needed you most?” It was then, dear one, I was ever so close. I've been by you all this time, wondering when you see, and take the time, to notice the things, I have for Thee. You may not know my Father, He so loved the world. His love, His power, the greatest in any world. It was Him that sent me. Since I agreed, I came to do His bidding, for everyone, don’t you see. If you wonder what more I can do, please remember that dreadful day, I died for you. For your sins too! I hung on that tree, for all to see. My life I gave willingly, to provide forgiveness, and salvation, tis all now free. Just bow Your head and speak to me. Believe with your heart, and I’ll set you be free. From sin and shame you will be, and a new home, shall you have with me. Here in heaven, someday soon, where God our Father wants you to be. So, my dear sweet child, now you know, I know all about you. May I suggest that you get to know me? How you say, through my Word! The Bible This is one of whom I've called, I know he’s short and all, but in my Word he very tall! Give a listen and you’ll agree getting saved just might be for Thee. Now listen as my servant imparts, what you must know. And I’ll be here watching you all grow! I pray that you would, consider the cost, the price paid. For we are bought with a price, that being, the giving of God's only begotten Son (see John 3:16)! Till next time! Your Servant, Larry |
| Here is another! My Dearest Child Sunday Aug 18th, 2002 By: L.R. Simas, Sr. |
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January / February 2002
Patriot’s Progress
Insights from a Patriot University Student
We welcome submissions from other students for possible future publication.
New Beginnings
My name is Larry and I’m a PIT. “What’s that?” you ask. It
means I’m a pastor-in-training. I love the Lord Jesus Christ. And
I’m being trained to become a pastor, to be better used of the
Lord.
Often, at this time of year, people resolve to do this or stop
doing that. Some even make a solemn promise or an oath to do,
or not to do, something. Hence a new beginning!
Mankind has often been blessed with a new beginning.
Throughout time we can see plainly that God has allowed his
people to continue to start, and restart, over and over again.
The One who rules over us all and loves us all allows us to make
mistakes and then allows us to try, try again. In other words, He
grants us a new beginning.
We see it throughout the Word of God. For example, God told
Noah to build an ark. The people taunted and made fun of him
and his so-called boat building. Result: they were the losers and
Noah and his family, the winners. And as a reward for being
obedient, Noah’s family survived the great flood and were
granted a new beginning.
The same can be said of Moses and the exodus. The children of
God were in bondage, crying out to the Lord. Then God called
Moses and equipped him to do verbal battle with Pharaoh. Once
again, God provided both a new beginning and a whole new
way of life.
The Israelites were given a new beginning both through the law
and the Promised Land. Then they received a new beginning
yearly. Called the day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), on this day
sacrifices were made for the remission of sins. Moab was a
heathen nation known for worshipping false gods (See I Kings
11:7 & II Kings 23:13-14). But something good came out of the
land called Moab.
A woman named Ruth would find a place in the line of David and
hence in the line of our Savior.
Listen to what she has to say: “And she said, Behold, thy sister
in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return
thou after thy sister in law. And Ruth said, Intreat me not to
leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither
thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy
people shall be my people, and thy God my God” (Ruth 1:15-
16). Once again we see a new beginning!
The story of Esther is one where the fate of the children of
Israel rested upon one person doing the right thing. In the
court of the king of Persia, about 50 years after some of the
Jews returned to Jerusalem from exile, a beautiful Jewish
woman named Esther was selected queen. There was a man
named Haman who plotted to have all the Jews killed. He
convinced the king to sign a decree to go forth with the plan.
But Queen Esther intervened and God delivered her and the
Jewish people. Again, we see a new beginning!
Consider David, who God refers to as a man after His own heart.
In Psalm 51 we find David not so kingly, but on his face and
speaking to the only One in whom he might find forgiveness. He
says “Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy
lovingkindness...For I acknowledge my transgressions… Against
thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight...”
(Psalm 51:1, 3, 4).
David never placed the blame for his sins upon anyone else. He
had broken several laws that made a man worthy of death. Yet
he prayed that God would put a right spirit in him, wash him,
and make him new. David was not only forgiven, but used
mightily by and for God. God used David to make His nation
larger and greater and to give a new beginning!
Our final stop for this trip will be in the land of Canaan. We will
visit a reluctant prophet who also had his own new beginning.
And he postponed the destruction of a people and their land.
I can easily identify with the prophet Jonah. He was asked by
God to go to Nineveh, the great capital of Assyria. But Jonah
rebelled and went the opposite direction. He was swallowed by
a great fish that God had prepared. But Jonah’s prayer was
heard and he was vomited out onto the land. He was given a
new beginning and so were the people of Nineveh.
I, too, have been as Jonah. I have heard what the Lord has
asked of me and tried to go elsewhere. Like Jonah, I have been
given a new direction and a new beginning.
New beginnings in God’s plan are wonderful! How can you have
one? Start by asking your Father, who has said, “Whatsoever ye
ask in my name, that will I do...” Try it!
Your PIT,
(pastor-in-training)
In His service,
Lawrence R. Simas, Sr., A.S.
Hyannis, Massachusetts
Patriot’s Progress
Insights from a Patriot University Student
We welcome submissions from other students for possible future publication.
New Beginnings
My name is Larry and I’m a PIT. “What’s that?” you ask. It
means I’m a pastor-in-training. I love the Lord Jesus Christ. And
I’m being trained to become a pastor, to be better used of the
Lord.
Often, at this time of year, people resolve to do this or stop
doing that. Some even make a solemn promise or an oath to do,
or not to do, something. Hence a new beginning!
Mankind has often been blessed with a new beginning.
Throughout time we can see plainly that God has allowed his
people to continue to start, and restart, over and over again.
The One who rules over us all and loves us all allows us to make
mistakes and then allows us to try, try again. In other words, He
grants us a new beginning.
We see it throughout the Word of God. For example, God told
Noah to build an ark. The people taunted and made fun of him
and his so-called boat building. Result: they were the losers and
Noah and his family, the winners. And as a reward for being
obedient, Noah’s family survived the great flood and were
granted a new beginning.
The same can be said of Moses and the exodus. The children of
God were in bondage, crying out to the Lord. Then God called
Moses and equipped him to do verbal battle with Pharaoh. Once
again, God provided both a new beginning and a whole new
way of life.
The Israelites were given a new beginning both through the law
and the Promised Land. Then they received a new beginning
yearly. Called the day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), on this day
sacrifices were made for the remission of sins. Moab was a
heathen nation known for worshipping false gods (See I Kings
11:7 & II Kings 23:13-14). But something good came out of the
land called Moab.
A woman named Ruth would find a place in the line of David and
hence in the line of our Savior.
Listen to what she has to say: “And she said, Behold, thy sister
in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return
thou after thy sister in law. And Ruth said, Intreat me not to
leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither
thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy
people shall be my people, and thy God my God” (Ruth 1:15-
16). Once again we see a new beginning!
The story of Esther is one where the fate of the children of
Israel rested upon one person doing the right thing. In the
court of the king of Persia, about 50 years after some of the
Jews returned to Jerusalem from exile, a beautiful Jewish
woman named Esther was selected queen. There was a man
named Haman who plotted to have all the Jews killed. He
convinced the king to sign a decree to go forth with the plan.
But Queen Esther intervened and God delivered her and the
Jewish people. Again, we see a new beginning!
Consider David, who God refers to as a man after His own heart.
In Psalm 51 we find David not so kingly, but on his face and
speaking to the only One in whom he might find forgiveness. He
says “Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy
lovingkindness...For I acknowledge my transgressions… Against
thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight...”
(Psalm 51:1, 3, 4).
David never placed the blame for his sins upon anyone else. He
had broken several laws that made a man worthy of death. Yet
he prayed that God would put a right spirit in him, wash him,
and make him new. David was not only forgiven, but used
mightily by and for God. God used David to make His nation
larger and greater and to give a new beginning!
Our final stop for this trip will be in the land of Canaan. We will
visit a reluctant prophet who also had his own new beginning.
And he postponed the destruction of a people and their land.
I can easily identify with the prophet Jonah. He was asked by
God to go to Nineveh, the great capital of Assyria. But Jonah
rebelled and went the opposite direction. He was swallowed by
a great fish that God had prepared. But Jonah’s prayer was
heard and he was vomited out onto the land. He was given a
new beginning and so were the people of Nineveh.
I, too, have been as Jonah. I have heard what the Lord has
asked of me and tried to go elsewhere. Like Jonah, I have been
given a new direction and a new beginning.
New beginnings in God’s plan are wonderful! How can you have
one? Start by asking your Father, who has said, “Whatsoever ye
ask in my name, that will I do...” Try it!
Your PIT,
(pastor-in-training)
In His service,
Lawrence R. Simas, Sr., A.S.
Hyannis, Massachusetts