Senior Sunday 2024

As I sit down to type these words for the NewLife News the one word that keeps coming to mind is time. Thinking back to Sunday and the graduating seniors sharing their thoughts, advice, and plans, I am reminded of just how quickly time moves. Hopefully, we were all encouraged to hear the seniors and celebrate them as they start this new chapter in their lives. If you did not get a chance to see it, I encourage you to watch the streamed video.

We have only so many years on this earth. We have only so many hours in a day. What are we going to do with them? When I saw the seniors, I thought about what I would have said when I was that age and getting ready to head to Asbury College some 25 years ago. I never would have guessed I would have gone into counseling and ended up as a pastor at a CMA church. (I didn’t even know CMA existed when I was 17 years old).

Where am I going with this, you ask? Don’t waste your time. Don’t assume we have it all figured out. Whether we are a senior in high school or years past retirement – let God lead your steps. In the legacy video I heard so many encouraging words about following God, keeping Him central and following Him. That doesn’t change when we get older. The devil can get us at 90 just as easily as he can get us at a younger age, if we take our eyes off Jesus.

One of my favorite Scriptures – which has been made into a fairly popular secular song is found in Ecclesiastes 3.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, 
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend, 
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate, 
a time for war and a time for peace.

Let us be in the moment. As Jeremy Camp’s song says “Keep Me In The Moment.” Let us allow ourselves to be in the time (season) God has placed us in, because He has a plan. He walks with us and we will benefit from taking the time to feel, to act, to respond, to be. 

NewLife, I encourage you to take every moment God blesses us with and cherish it. Take every chance and be in that moment. Love each other in those times. We don’t know what tomorrow looks like, where we will be or who will be around us. Today – give God glory and praise for the moment – for our season – for the time we have now.

Blessings and Love,

Pastor Kyle

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