Amazing Grace It Is!

Scripture

So you, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

~2 Timothy 2:1, NET

Quote

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me.

~John Newton

Yoda, the Jedi instructor, was fond of putting the verb last in his sentences. I thought of him when I read the STREAMS devotion yesterday. As you already know, John Newton is a favorite of mine. The older I get the more I understand John and the inspiration behind the hymn AMAZING GRACE. As a matter of fact, I have tried to come up with a better adjective than ‘amazing’ and cannot do so. A wretch is a very needy person but in my earlier years, I didn’t understand just how wretched I was and I’m not saying that I fully understand now but I do know that I feel more and more wretchedness each day I live.

There are only three cities, that I know of, who have trolley cars. San Francisco, New Orleans and Toronto. June and I visited Toronto back in the 90’s when we attended a Billy Graham school for evangelism and at that time Toronto was the safest large city {1 million of more} in the world. June and I enjoyed going down town late at night and riding the trolley’s. The story in STREAMS for April 20 is about a kid who lived in a town that had hills and trolleys. Sounds like San Francisco but it did not give those details. The boy was riding his bike up a hill and he was nearing exhaustion. When the trolley slowly pulled up beside him, he stopped pumping, sat down on his seat and reach out with one arm and grabbed the vertical bar on the back of the trolley. The trolley gently and with ease, pulled him to the top of the hill where he let go and flew down the back side.

What a beautiful picture of GRACE. Life has some ups and downs, some hills to climb and sometimes we get near total exhaustion. Life becomes a struggle. It is at these times that we need to reach for Christ, take hold of His omnipotent hand and allow Him to pull us up the incline. He is there all the time, waiting for you and I to extend our hand. It would be very wise on your part, to extend that hand every morning before you begin your day. When I look back over my brief life, when I look back down the hill and think of how Christ has brought me safe thus far, I am AMAZED by His marvelous, wonderful GRACE.

Landon Drake, better known as Big L, had his last high school base ball game last night and it was a thriller. DHS won by one run and the game went down to the final out. We beat Curry who is going to the play offs in 4-A. We are going no where but we did not have a bad team. No one really beat Dillion Parker this year, he gave up a lot of walks but I don’t remember any team getting more than 4 hits off of him. I think they had three last night. He lost a game a few weeks back when he gave up on two hits. It has been that kind of year plus we had a couple of good teams in our area. We played some good baseball last night. Anyway, Big L finished strong with a no hitter on Monday night {5 inning shut out over Hatton} and put on a base running exhibition last night. I don’t know who was more entertaining, Big L on the bases or his crazy grand daddy hollowing at him and trying to coach him. When I say ‘running’ the bases, I am using the term ‘running’ lightly. Him reaching third last night is a long story but when he finally got there; I told the group…a double will get him home. I love him and I am proud of him but he may be the slowest kid I’ve ever seen. If you doubt my story being true; Hannah has it on video.

BLM was on the scene of a police shooting of a car jacker. They showed up and took the proverbial knee and then they found out the car jacker was a white man and they got up and left. I think some one captured it on video but I haven’t had the time to find it. We heard about it from Rick and Bubba. You talk about racist, they assumed the car jacker was black. I thought such assumption was profiling.

Ryder mentioned last night that there is an uproar about Carrie Underwood singing Amazing Grace and Great Is Thy Faithfulness as some Country Music award show. The criticism is that she is pushing her religion down their throat. Of course they are moron’s. Christianity is not a religion; it is a relationship with Jesus. It is very hypocritical for a secular humanist to talk about someone cramming their religion down another’s throat. Secular humanism is the oldest religion in the world and it get crammed down our throat every day. Libs are such hypocrites. Carrie Underwood doesn’t need the Hollywood crowd to survive. She can make a good living singing gospel. I’d tell them to take a hike. The Hollywooders are destroying a good Southern institution that we once called “Country Music.”

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