Prayer: Lord, we trust in you with all our heart and mind. Lead us in the right way to live and give us the strength to keep on your path to eternal life. Amen (from the Moravian Daily Texts 2020)
Reading: Philippians 3: 4b-13 (Click to read text) Stop and GROW: After reading the text, discuss/ponder the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Book of Faith questions, which are part of Camp Mount Luther's GROW Time with campers. QUESTION 1: What scares, confuses, challenges, or doesn’t make sense to me in this text? QUESTION 2: What delights me in this text or is my favorite part of the story? QUESTION 3: What stories or memories does this text stir in me? QUESTION 4: What is God up to in this text? Reflection: It was a dark day at the IUP Lutheran Campus Center. The pastor’s wife was in the hospital and her recovery was uncertain. We gathered for prayer. I recall two songs from that evening - the hymn “If You but Trust in God to Guide You” with this as the second verse: Sing, pray and keep his ways unswerving, offer your service faithfully, and trust his word; though undeserving, you’ll find his promise true to be. God never will forsake in need the soul that trusts in him indeed. The second song we simply listened to – Jim Croce’s “I Got a Name” with it’s lines: I’ve got a name, I’ve got a name… I’ve got a song, I’ve got a song… I’ve got a dream, I’ve got a dream… Movin’ ahead so life won’t pass me by Like Paul in our text today, we put our trust in God. Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead. Press on toward the goal of eternal life. Trust and keep movin’ ahead. --Ruth Gates
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