Dizzy Dyer's Dialogue

                          ...June 2010
 

GRADUATION
I may have two graduations this year talk about feeling my age. Jonathan, our youngest, graduated in May from Coleman HS and our oldest (6 years between the boys), Ryan, should in June or soon after that graduate from college with a degree in photography.

Many of you are going to experience the big event in one way or another it is an exciting time and yet a very challenging time for our students. If you could take a short bit of advice from a guy who is a parent…don’t always believe everything you read about the state of our world from the news media or other people. Remember God has a place and purpose for you!

One of the most effective tools the enemy will use to keep you from serving God is convincing you that you’ve either messed up too much to serve God or that you must clean up your life before you can get God’s attention. When these thoughts pop into your head, know it is the enemy and not from God.

God’s intention when he convicts us of our sins is not to condemn us; rather his breath of life disperses that satanic smoke the father of lies uses to keep us on the run from God.

Scripture says…

'Woe to me!’ I cried. ‘I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips . . . and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.’ Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal . . . which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, ‘See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.’ Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?’ And I said, ‘Here am I. Send me!’” (Isaiah 6:5–8 NIV)

If you follow the sequence of Isaiah 6, you’ll see how God initiates the process that brings you into his holy presence and purifies you to remain in his presence, and that your new guilt-free, sin-atoned status will compel you and prepare you for the unique mission God sets before you.

Prior to God taking the initiative to cleanse Isaiah, the prophet felt overwhelmed and unprepared for any mission on God’s behalf.

Isaiah reports that God’s fire is a cleansing fire that burns your guilt away and purifies you from sin, sealing within you the work of Jesus Christ. The prophet also suggests God’s ultimate purpose for cleansing us is to prepare us for mission: “Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?’ And I said, ‘Here am I. Send me!’” (Isaiah 6:8 NIV).

Grads and parents of grads it is my prayer that is your prayer.
PD


 

 
 
 

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