That is the title our pastor picked today from the scripture reading from Romans 12: 9-21. It was an awsome sermon. The kind that makes you love everybody. A very anointed minister delivered this sermon today. I wondered how he came up with a title like this, "Maintaining the Course," from the thirteen verses in Romans chapter 12. It starts out saying that love must be completely sincere. Hate what is evil, hold on to what is good. Serve the Lord with a heart full of devotion. Ask God to bless those who persecute you. Do not be proud, but accept humble duties. Do everything possible on your part to live in peace with everybody. Do not let evil defeat you; instead, conquer evil with good. There are several more do's and don'ts in the rest of the verses, but my question is, "is this part of maintaining the course?" Actually it is. The course of this life has to be maintained, that is fixing something every day that has broken down. Love turning to hate, humbleness turning to pride, peace turning to fighting, work turning to laziness, just to name a few of the things we need to fix everyday in order to keep our heart right with God. There is one thing that I hope we all can remember daily, "work while it is still day, for the night cometh when work shall be no more."
God bless
Jean Sharp
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