Insightful Musings on the Scriptures
by
Raymond P. Sparre
Northwest University class of '67
Greetings, dear people.
The main activities of the day are now past. We did our Gospel Sing sessions at two assisted living facilities. Following our session at Pheasant Pointe this afternoon, we dropped Thano off at Safeway for his 4:40-11pm shift. Then we called in at BiMart where I purchased a new alarm clock. Last night I set my good old faithful alarm clock for 12:30 midnight and dropped in bed just after 10pm. The plan was to run in to Safeway to pick up Thano as he was off at 1am. Well, the alarm didn’t work. I checked it out and, although it continues to keep good time, the alarm function is shot. Anyway, it was a call from Thano this morning about 1:15am that woke us up so I could do the taxi operation.
Becki just informed me that Thano’s shift has been extended to 1am. But a lady that works at the store who lives just beyond us is also doing the same shift…so she can drop Thano off…so I don’t have to try out my new alarm clock. Good deal!
Blessings on what’s left of your day. Love, Dad/Ray
This is a quote from Isaiah 40:3. The King James Version translates it “crying in the wilderness.” It is clearly a prophetic word describing the life and ministry of “John the Baptist.”
The world system around us can very well be likened to a dry desert of spiritual barrenness—a wilderness of the true knowledge of God. The ministry of “John the Baptist” is just as needed today as it was then. We need to hear more crying out in this wilderness and calling for people to repent and seek God—to forsake sin and prepare their hearts for compliance with His will.
What about you? (…including me.) Do you have a desire to be God’s crier? Have you done all you can to “prepare the way for the Lord” in your own life?—your own wilderness? To make it all work right we desperately need to be a caller TO God before we can be a caller FOR God. Perhaps we could extend the analogy one step further and say we are either callers or deserts—either criers for God or a part of the wilderness of unfruitfulness and need—or, as you probably have heard before, either a missionary or a mission field.