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“We give Thee but Thine own,
Whatever the gift may be; All that we have is Thine alone, A trust, O Lord, from Thee
"How much do you love me?" your little child or grandchild asks...and you spread your arms wide and say "This much and more."
And this is what God does....spreads wide His arms and says the same...and more.
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the thoughts below read a quote from Rev. Wyrick's applauded 9th book THE
SPIRITUAL ARAHAM LINCOLN
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When that
babe was born in Bethlehem it shouted to the ages that the eternal was sending
a message to the mortal; I love you more than you could ever have imagined and
here is the living proof.
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
eternal life."
There it
is...it could not be more clear.
The gift of God's love at the foot of the tree of life....all
wrapped and wonderful and the card
reading "From God with love."
The
little girl was telling her older friend how she going to buy a pair of
slippers for her father's birthday.
"Where
will you get the money?" her friend asked.
"Why
daddy will give it to me," came back the reply.
And so it is with you and me. Everything we have is a gift from God...from
the gift of birth to the gift of salvation and everything in between.
Or as that hymn you have so often most likely sung puts
it
“We give Thee but Thine own,
Whatever the gift may be; All that we have is Thine alone, A trust, O Lord, from Thee
"How much do you love me?" your little child or grandchild asks...and you spread your arms wide and say "This much and more."
And this is what God does....spreads wide His arms and says the same...and more.
Thomas Carlyle married his secretary, but after the wedding he
continued to treat her as an employee rather than a wife.
He rarely noticed her and usually only
called on her when he has a task for her to do.
He was busy and usually absorbed in his
own life. He loved her very much, but many things went unsaid and time
passed..until....
One day, his wife was diagnosed with
cancer.
She was confined to bed for a long long
while until one day she died quietly in her sleep.
After the funeral, Carlyle went back to
their house which was now dark and empty.
Grieving deeply, he wandered around the
house thinking about the loss of the woman he loved.
He sat by her bed. He had not sat there
very often during her long illness.
Then
he noticed her diary.
While she was alive, he never would have
read it, but now that she was gone he felt free to pick it up and thumb through
it pages.
One entry caught his eye: "Yesterday
he spent an hour with me. And it was like being in heaven. I love him so
much."
He turned a few more pages and read,
"I listened all day to hear his steps in the hallway. And now it's late. I
guess he won't come to see me."
Carlyle read a few more entries and then
threw the book on the floor and ran out into the rain back to the cemetery.
He fell on his wife's grave in the mud,
sobbing, "If only I had known...if only I had known."
But you do know...He has told you and shown you and there is no
doubt of the love our heavenly Father has for you and me.
And oh what a shame we put to shambles the love we should give back
in return.
The greatest love story ever told...we
make analogies about an earthly father and an earthly son...but we are truly
wordless when we try to compare or explain how much eternal love awaits us...on
a regular timeless basis.
I do so covet this wonderful gift of love
from my Almighty God...therefore I often, in a sense, sing along with Ethel
Walters (though obviously nowhere near as well as did she) the song she sung so
often...
"I sing because I'm happy.
"I sing because I'm free.
"For His eye is on the sparrow
"And I know He watches me."
Hollywood and Hallmark speak and write about love...but God in the
sacrifice of His son epitomizes it.
John Calvin wrote a warning “God means for us
to enjoy continually the love he has for us, and so he warns us to be careful
not to deprive ourselves of it.”
And it is so easy to shortchange
ourselves with too much business apart from practicing the business of God. the
prayers unprayed, the good deeds undone. the songs of praise unsung...and they
add up as plusses or subtract as minuses...
"Abide
in his love"...it is a proactive praise...loved by God...love to God.
The effort to
love God as we should...not the perfection of the practice...that is what
counts.
Ah, when God's love for us meets our love
for Him there is light..there is joy...there is wonder.
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Below is a quote from Rev. Wyrick's 9th book
THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
It is little wonder that once the war was over,
wretched memories fed anger loud and long.
Neither side could be proud of some things that happened during the war
or at their many prison camps. The
meanness in some men had multiplied.
They felt their uniforms allowed it.
Andersonville, or Camp
Sumter as it was officially known, in
southwest Georgia
is remembered as one of the worst.
By the end of the war, it had held 50,000
prisoners on a piece of land no larger than twenty-six acres.
Some men had called pits in the ground
their home. During its short
fourteen-month existence, 13,000 soldiers who had survived in battle died in
captivity under the most terrible conditions.
When the war was over the superintendent
was hanged.
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WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE BOOK
"Positive,
powerful utterances...skillfully enhancing our understanding and appreciation
of Lincoln
while revealing the Divine source of his strength."
Lt.
Colonel C.A. Olsen (Ret.) Asbury
College (Professor Ret.)
"The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln is
an extremely well written book that investigates what might be
termed the spiritual side of President Lincoln. It's both scholarly and very
readable. I came away impressed at Mr. Wyrick's portrayal of the President and
with an altered and enlarged vision of the man:'
William Hoffman, Award winning fiction writer; author of Blood and Guile, and
Wild Thorn
"Wyrick has authored a wonderful
examination of the spirituality of one of American history's most devoutly
religious leaders...a pleasant and readable book that has a rich depth of
information."
Maynard Pittendreigh Presbyterian
minister
"When it comes to invoking religion in
support of any of their decisions, politicians need to sit at the feet of
Abraham Lincoln. Reinhold Niebuhr once called him 'America's greatest theologian.' Why
so great? Because he invariably distinguished between human works and the works
of the Almighty. As Wyrick says, 'He wore the mantle of humility
easily: because he was more impressed with what God was doing in the world than
with what he, president of the United States in the midst of an awful crisis,
was doing. That is why in his last major speech he distinguished between both
human causes in the Civil War and the Almighty's 'own purposes.' Lincoln would have agreed
that it is better to leave God-talk out of politics than to decorate human
proposals with divinity. This is a book for our American time. Through his
careful study of Lincoln's
career, Wyrick compels us to remember that piety belongs in politics only when
piety transcends politics."
Dr.
Donald W. Shriver
Emeritus professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Author of An
Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics
"V. Neil Wyrick's fine work allows the reader to appreciate Abraham
Lincoln's Christian commitment and his prophetic role in American history.
Should have a wide readership."
James
H. Smylie Professor
of Church History (Ret.) Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia
"Neil
Wyrick's The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln should be read by anyone attempting to understand the man who was probably
the most complex person to ever hold the office of president of the United States.
Dr. Wyrick is intent on demonstrating that the spirituality so often expressed
in Lincoln's
writings and speeches was not merely lip service to a Deity, but rather
expressions of a profound faith in a real God. It was this faith that provided
the wisdom, compassion, insight and sometimes steel that Lincoln would need in full measure as he led the United States through the Civil
War. Dr. Wyrick's clear and unpretentious style of presentation is very much in
keeping with the character ofhis subject, and in so doing, Wyrick makes his
point very well that Lincoln,
his beliefs, and the faith that formed them, are as relevant to a troubled America in 2004
as they were in 1863."
Daniel Allen Butler, author
of "Unsinkable"; The Full Story of the RMS Titanic, The Lusitania and The
Age o f Cunard.
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Neil also writes for go60.us to check out his writings...
click on
"Voice" on the home page and then on the list of authors click
on Neil Wyrick
Recent articles Rev. Wyrick has written for this web site are:
REFLECTIONS
·
Here Comes Summer (July 2012)
·
Spring
(May 2012)
·
Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow (April 2012)
·
Wayward and Windy (April 2012)
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Some of the sermon titles
posted recently on Wyrick's Writings
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BELOW ARE MORE QUOTES FROM NEIL'S RECENTLY POSTED SERMONS
on Wyrick's Writings
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A QUOTE FROM THOUGHTS POSTED ON MY
OTHER BLOG WYRICK'S WRITINGS ENTITLED
Two stores faced each other across a very
busy street. Their owners were in constant competition with
each other. One day, the owner of one
store put out a sign that read – If you
want it, we have it!
Almost immediately the other owner put out a
sign –If we don’t have it, you don’t
need it!
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SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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