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Following His Dream for Your Life
Online Sermon:
http://www.mckeesfamily.com/?page_id=3567
There are many great wonders in this world but
certainly one of the most beautiful but challenging of them is a
maze found in Venice, Italy called the Villa Pisani Labirinto.
Designed by Girolamo Frigimelica in the early 1700s this
“classical medieval
circular maze of nine
concentric patterns
and many dead ends”
was so intimidating
and challenging that
Napoleon got lost in it
and Hitler and
Mussolini were too
afraid to enter it at
all!1 What makes this
one of the most
difficult mazes in the world to navigate is not only its intricate
pathways but also its hedges that are too dense to go through
and too high to see over.
This maze reminds me of the never
ending, unknown, almost infinite pathways of life we as
Christians must navigate!
Living in an interconnected world of
constant texting, internet browsing and international news one
is constantly being bombarded with so many “voices of
choices” that knowing with certainty which are the right paths
to take seems to be an exercise in futility.
And while the world
would have us chase after money, fame, and power this makes
little sense considering such endeavors are temporary and of
little value considering the eternity God has placed within our
hearts (Ecclesiastes 3:11)!
Scripture states that the overall goal
of life is to please God (2 Corinthians 5:9-11) by “striving
towards becoming spiritually mature and attaining the full
measure of Christ” (Ephesians 4:13).
While knowing this
overarching goal is of enormous value to us this still begs the
question of what does God-approved decision-making look like
when each of His own are given spiritual gifting and assigned
unique divine tasks to accomplish (1 Corinthians 12)?
While we know finding the right paths to take
in the maze called life is found through much
prayer and fasting to prepare one’s heart to
listen to God’s often gentle whisper and
command to go and serve in His name, many
believers still wander aimlessly in the maze
of life simply because they are too enamored
with their own path that seems so very right
in their own sight!
The following sermon is going to give several examples of
Biblical characters who when hearing God’s call obeyed and as
a result got to participate in a divine role in His kingdom that
far outlasted their time on this earth!
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Taken from the following website:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/villa-pisani-labirinto
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“The Walls Come Down”
Joshua was called by God to lead the children on Israel
to take the Promised Land.
It had been forty years since he and
the other eleven spies first surveyed the land (Numbers 14:34).
While it truly was a land filled with milk and honey, Joshua
still remembered both him and Caleb tearing their clothes in
disgust (14:6) because the other spies saw the size of the people
and fortified cities and became too scared to follow God’s plan
for their lives (13:28)!
As Joshua came near to
Jericho some forty
years later, he looked
up and saw the
commander of the
Lord’s army standing
before him with a
drawn sword (Joshua
5:13).
Joshua fell face
down in reverence,
removed his sandals, for he was standing on holy ground (5:1415); and intently listened to what the Lord had to say about
conquering Jericho.
The Lord told him that Jericho had already
been delivered into his hands if he followed His plan of
judgment upon the nation (6:2).
For six days he was to have
the army march around the walls of the city and have seven
priests carry trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark.
On the
seventh day he was to march around the city seven times with
the priests blowing the trumpets.
Up until this time Joshua told
the army not to speak a single word (6:10) until they heard a
long blast on the trumpets and then they were to shout, and the
walls of the city would collapse, and victory would be theirs
(6:3-5).
God gave Joshua a path to take that required incredible
faith.
He could have devised his own plan to conquer Jericho
steeped in military strategy but instead chose to trust in God to
come good on His promise!
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