Pastor's Corner

“¿Con Que Pagaremos?” is one of the most beautiful songs that has

touched me over the years during my personal devotions. It’s a

song of meditation, and I enjoy hearing it mostly as sung by

the Christian artist Fernando Ortega. Funny thing, when I go

to type out the title I can never find the ‘upside down ?’

mark that is used at the beginning of the title of the song.

This is because it’s written in the foreign language of

Spanish. In other words, I need to be able to type another

language into my keyboard so that I can spell it out correctly.

This leads me to my point of this month’s challenge. . . over the next month I believe

that the Lord wants to ‘type another language into our keyboard’ so that we can spell

out an important issue correctly in our lives, that issue is “Temptation-the Good, the

Bad & the Ugly.”

As you consider this topic, reflect on this. . . through regeneration, the son of God is

formed in us (Gal. 4:19), and in our physical life does Jesus have the same supremacy

that He had when He walked the very earth that we now walk on? If we remember, Jesus

himself was tempted by Satan in the same manner that we are still tempted today. As

people born again by the Spirit of God, we can begin to see that temptations from Satan

do not just tempt us to do wrong things — he actually tempts us to make us lose what God

has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God.

This type of temptation is actually a test of the possessions held within the inner,

spiritual part of our very being by a power outside of us and foreign to us. Thus the

reason why we should be willing to let the Lord ‘type another language into our internal

keyboard’ so that we can spell it out correctly when faced with a temptation that might

just be foreign to us.

If this has perked your interest, then I look forward to seeing you in our worship

services over the month of October. Get ready to be equipped, encouraged and excited

about what God has planned for you and through you! “For I know the plans I have for

you,” declares the Lord, “plans to propser you and not to harm you, plans

to give you hope for a future.” (Jer 29:11).

May God bless and keep you,

Pastor Dennis