This should not be. This cannot be. This shall not be. By the grace of God, this shall not be!
Paul wrote to the church in Galatia, "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free."
The LORD God created you to be free. But we have come to accept, in our hearts, the bondage as it is. Dreams have been drowned. Hope has been smothered. A new day begins and we wonder why.
Hear me now: This is not about shirking responsibilities. This is about taking responsibility - - for our families, for our finances, for our futures. There is hope and that hope is found in Jesus Christ. Not just the hope of heaven instead of hell, but the hope of a life characterized by liberty and love - - here and now.
On November 14, 1970, Southern Airways Flight #932 collided with a hill less than a mile from the end of the runway in Huntington, West Virgina. It was 7:35 on a Saturday evening. The chartered DC-9 was carrying 37 members of the Thundering Herd football team from Marshall University, 33 members of the coaching staff & boosters, and five Southern Airway employees.
Their team was gone. Their town was devastated. It seemed as if life, itself, had been snatched from that entire college community. Something had to change. And it did. The university applied for and received special permission to play freshmen for the 1971 season, and a new coach named Jack Lengyel took over.
As they prepared for their first game, Coach Lengyel took his team to a memorial for six of the deceased players. Matthew McConaughey portrays Coach Lengyel in the 2006 movie "We Are Marshall":
Dream, again.
Hope, again.
"For as a man thinks in his heart, so is he." (paraphrase of Prov. 23:7 KJV).
Do not give up.
Do not give in.
"The funerals end today!"
This is Challenge Pointe.
Semper Fidelis.
Doug
