Back in the seventies, Todd Rundgren asked the musical question: "Will the Real God Please Stand Up?"

I wondered as well...

Sometimes one needs to step back and look at the Big Picture. Transcending time and space, I've since learned much about God's activity in history through an historical friend named Paul. He once wrote a letter to a group of kindred spirits in Colosse:

“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.”

We have learned from the Apostle Paul to hide the riches of God’s Word in our hearts through the mnemonic device known as melody. Consider what happened to these two stewards of unfavorable circumstances (Acts 16:25-34).

“About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everybody's chains came loose. The jailer woke up, and when he saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself because he thought the prisoners had escaped. But Paul shouted, "Don't harm yourself! We are all here!"

The jailer called for lights, rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas. He then brought them out and asked, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household." Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house. At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his family were baptized. The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God—he and his whole family.

Bell Road Baptist Church is at 707 Bell Road, Auburn Exit 123 at Interstate 80 (near the three, white crosses on the hill)

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