Dear SCC & Friends,
Well done… ~Matthew 25:23
Reflection #170
Ancient milestones were set up along roadways to mark distance. The Roman Empire built more than fifty-three thousand miles of roads, placing stone markers every 4,800 feet just shy of a mile (5,280 ft.). The milestones gauged travel and distance… how far they had come and how far they had to go. Eventually a milestone took on additional meaning and became synonymous with an action or event representing a significant change and stage of development. Our oldest grandchild graduated from high school this month… A milestone for her, and the beginning of a new transition for all of us. Graduation at any level acknowledges a process completed and points to the opportunities and challenges of future endeavors. The Lord is in it all, as one chapter ends another begins. Posterity will serve Him; it will be told of the Lord to the coming generation. ~Ps. 22:30 ~Selah~
Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. ~Will Rogers~ I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go… ~Ps. 32:8 We are redeemed into a “go faith.” The culture our granddaughter goes into is far different than when I graduated from high school. The challenges she and her generation will face are formidable. Yet, the calling has always been the same, to serve God in our own generation. The Word of God is the ultimate milestone and eternal point of reference. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever. ~Isa. 40:8 True north is always true north. God knows the times in which He called us to live. In the midst, we press on …to lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. ~Phil. 3:12 “Pressing on” has its own reward. …I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. ~Phil. 3:14… The journey continues for us and all the graduates… The best is yet to come… Keep up the good work!
Onward and upward in Christ,
Kevin