Triple C News - April 1, 2022
Hey, everyone!
Hope you’re having a blessed day! There’s lots going on so we wanted to make sure you have all the latest announcements about the…
Wait a sec.
“Hope you’re having a blessed day…”
That’s not really what I meant to say. I know everyone says it all the time, but it’s kind of confusing to say that.
Lots of times in those everyday moments of everyday, stuff gets said that winds up being confusing!
I remember one guy who stepped into the laundry room to do some of it (which didn't happen all that much!) and yelled, “Honey! What setting on the washing machine should I use for my new sweatshirt??”
“What does the sweatshirt say?” she asked back.
“University of Wisconsin!”
One nurse said she once handed that little plastic cup to a ten year-old patient in the pediatric clinic because the doc needed a urine sample. She told him to go in the bathroom and fill it up.
He brought it out empty, handed it back and announced, “Hey! I didn’t even need this! There’s a toilet in there!”
I remember reading about a woman who went to her dietician with concerns about her blood pressure and he asked, “What’s the most you’ve ever weighed?”
“One hundred and forty-nine pounds,” she answered.
“What’s the least you’ve ever weighed?”
“Six pounds, seven ounces.”
It’s easy to say stuff that folks normally say and be misunderstood!
Like...“Have a blessed day!”
When you think about it, whether or not I’m blessed isn’t really up to me!
“To bless” is a word that originally meant “to speak good over someone or about someone”.
If I’m gonna be “blessed” it’s because God says something good over me, for me, and/or about me!
It ain’t really up to me!
The One Who said, “ ‘Let there be light!’ And it was so!”…
is the same One Who says…
“Let this one be Mine!” And it is so!
Or…
“Let this one be My daughter!” And it is so!
Or…
“Your sins are forgiven!” and it is so!
Mary’s cousin said it of her, “You are blessed!” (Luke 1)
But who wouldn’t say that about her?!?
When Jesus rode a donkey into the Holy City, they all shouted, “Blessed is He…!!”
But who wouldn’t say that about Him?!?
Jesus blessed the babies that moms and dads brought to Him.
But who wouldn’t say that about them?!?
But the wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles is that He has said good things...
this very day...
over, about, and for...
you!!
You ARE blessed! With every spiritual blessing!! (Ephesians 1.3)
Every wonderful thing that He says about all of His kids around the world, He says about, over, and for…YOU!
He says, “You are MIne!” (Isaiah 43.1)
He says, you are His daughter or son! (Romans 8.16))
He says you are clean and pure! (Hebrews 10.17)
In fact if you listen quietly for His blessing voice, you may hear...
singing! (Zephaniah 3.17)
There is a wonderful place in a book Professor C S Lewis wrote for kids about the first day of the imaginary world of Narnia. The King of Narnia is a Lion named Aslan...
(CSL wrote that if Jesus were King of an imaginary world, in his heart He would be like this original Lion King!)
On the first day of Narnia, Aslan created everything by…
singing!
“In the darkness something was happening at last. A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory (a boy from our world) found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once…Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself…it was…the most beautiful sound he had ever heard. It was so beautiful he could hardly bear it…”
"…Far away, and down near the horizon, the sky began to turn grey. A light wind, very fresh, began to stir…All the time the Voice went on singing…The eastern sky changed from white to pink and from pink to gold. The Voice rose and rose, till all the air was shaking with it. And just as it swelled to the mightiest and most glorious sound it had yet produced, the sun arose."
"Digory had never seen such a sun…You could imagine that it laughed for joy as it came up…The earth was of many colours: they were fresh, hot and vivid. They made you feel excited; until you saw the Singer himself, and then you forgot everything else."
"It was a Lion. Huge, shaggy, and bright it stood facing the risen sun. Its mouth was wide open in song…"
"And then the deepest, wildest voice the children had ever heard was saying: 'Narnia, Narnia, Narnia, awake. Love.Think. Speak.' "
And He sings over you!
"You’re My own! You’re clean! You are loved! Child, awake! Love! Think! Speak!"
Hey! You ARE having a blessed day!