Bob Ensminger
Pastor's Corner
The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men (Psalm 11:4)”
Have you ever had the feeling that someone was watching you? How did it make you feel? Perhaps it made you feel “creepy”! Or, if you knew that you were doing something wrong and suddenly you realized that someone was watching you, you tried to hide or make it appear that everything was okay.
The truth is that someone IS watching you all the time AND keeping records! How does that make you feel?
Bob Ensminger
Pastor's Corner
“Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen” (Revelation 1:7).
During our time on the mission field in Samoa we had traveled to the main island of Upolu for the birth of our third child. While we were there I became impatient for her arrival and wanted to return to our home in Savaii to check on things there. I figured that I could get there and back before my wife went into labor and delivery.
Bob Ensminger
Pastor's Corner
“Thus says the LORD: ‘Heaven is My throne, And earth is my footstool. Where is the house that you will build Me? And where is the place of My rest? For all those things My hand has made, And all those things exist,’ Says the LORD. ‘But on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, And who trembles at My word.'” (Isaiah 66:1-2)
The Israelites had a Temple for worshiping the Lord God. They put much attention on the building. After all, it was the place that God had ordained as the place for worship – the place where men could come and approach God through sacrifice, incense and the priesthood.
Bob Ensminger
Pastor's Corner
“I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;
therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes” (Job 42:5-6).
Job had gone through a rough ordeal – losing everything and having “friends” who had no sympathy, only judgment for him. But when God spoke to him he saw himself in a completely different light. His vision of God caused him to look at himself and see that, in contrast to the holiness of God, he was nothing – he had nothing that he could claim for himself to be right with God. He saw the filth of his own heart and the need for repentance. The fact that he had to “repent” in itself is an admission of guilt – the guilt of sin.
Bob Ensminger
Pastor's Corner
The New Year, 2020, is here. We are beginning a new year and a new decade in history. What will we see this year? As a man with naturally poor eyesight (with 20/200+ vision, uncorrected), I am thankful that I can see as well as I can with corrected vision (almost 20/20 with my contacts). And the year “2020” reminds me of the need for spiritual vision. Physically I can see well enough what is in front of me. But what about spiritually?