First, I want to thank you for the vacation time. My wife and I had a
great time in Virginia and we were even joined the second half of the week
by my younger son and grandson and granddaughter. When we returned I
had a chance to kick back and relax and do some of the things that needed
to be done around the home.
While I was gone, I was made aware of a variety of concerns with some
of you here. Some of you were surprised when I would make a phone call
just to check in. A number of you said, “You are on vacation.”
This leads me to declare to all of you that God does not take a vacation.
He is with us every moment of our lives, moments when we are on shaky
ground, moments when we are having fun, moments when we are hurting
and need to experience his presence, moments when our faith has been
drained from us, moments when we are top of the mountain.
I reaffirm this with just the beginning of Psalm 139.
“O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know
when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern
my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.”
Need we have any more reassurance than this.
