sunday thoughts; 16.09.2007
It was my first time in an American church. I was visiting New York and wasted to attend service. I got the church recommended, a lot of others visitors went there as well. I felt welcome and had a great time there. Somethings I was familiar with, other things not. And as a pastor I couldn’t help my self for thinking and comparing to my own church at home….
I have forgotten a lot of the details of the sermon. Only remembers that she had some help, at the end, of the organist. I still smile when I see her in front of me preaching about trusting God, while the organ underlines her words. For me that is so American (I might be wrong, though!) – and therefor a thing that stuck with me. The other thing was her words, that she kept on saying:
LET GO AND LET GOD!
LET GO AND LET GOD!
If I’m not mistaken it’s from a poem. I didn’t know that then.
It’s not easy words to translate this into Norwegian, at least not so catchy, so mostly I just use the English version when I tell people about this service. If I should make a sermon for tomorrow, this is what I would have said over and over again – until my congregation had it as much stuck in their mind as I:
LET GO AND LET GOD! LET GO AND LET GOD!
That is the essence of Jesus words; just read them:
“No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Matt 6:24-33
LET GO AND LET GOD! LET GO AND LET GOD!
Wish you a happy and Blessed Sunday!
anneberit 
