Turn To Jesus

courtesy of Marc Pelletier 

A Tree and Its Fruit

⁴³ “For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit, ⁴⁴ for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush. ⁴⁵ The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

Build Your House on the Rock

⁴⁶ “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? ⁴⁷ Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: ⁴⁸ he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.⁴⁹ But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”

On this day when we commemorate the 20th anniversary of the national tragedy we have dubbed as "9/11", we witness a country divided and unhappy.  We have not found peace; the national unity we experienced  at that time has dissipated as have the morals and values of our decaying, materialistic culture.  Yet, there is always hope as this sunrise photo reminds us.  It is a new day; it could be a new time for us as a nation, as a Church, as a people to put God, the Creator of all beauty, value and life back into our lives. Our Rock is Jesus, our Foundation, our Salvation.  Why is he in the back seat, when he needs to be the driver, the one who brings us safely home?  As we take time to remember those who lost their lives on September 11, may we look at our own lives and see where they need attention before we lose them and ultimately the way of living Jesus came to show us, one based on the simple rule:  "Love one another as I have loved you.".

Bro .Rene