My View from the Ridge

Greetings readers, Glad to have you aboard.

This is a new feature of the Cherry Hill UMC website and we are excited to roll it out for all to see.  All of us here at Cherry Hill hope that you enjoy what is posted here and that you find it helpful on your journey to know God a little better.

As for the title “My View from the Ridge”, we are on the Ridge Road, an ancient Sand Ridge that once was the border of the Great Lakes and later an Native American trail.  Today the Ridge is still a bit of a border between “country” and “suburban” living.  As for the trail part, well, it is one really busy road connecting points north with Ypsilanti to the South.

It is my hope to keep this blog updated often and I invite what ever comments you might have.  Some of what you will find here will be humerous (hopefully), light hearted (as oft times we take ourselves way to seriously), informational and I will always try to be encouraging.  The journey of life is a trying one with many pitfalls and disappointments along the way.  If I can add to someone’s life by bringing a little joy for the journey I will have been successful.

While I hope to bring some joy, I also want to leave you thinking about God.  What better task is there than to be thinking about the One who gives us life and and purpose.  Currently I am using a daily devotional book entitled: “The Making of a Man” by Richard Exley.  I found it a local yard sale a month or so ago.  Unfortunately I have not read it daily but at least three times a week I have read a passage.  This morning I was reading a selection entitled, “Investing in the Eternal.”  The thought for the Day quotes a man by the name of David Shipley and says, in part “One hundred years from today your present income will be inconsequential.  One hundred years from now it won’t matter if you got that big break…  It will matter that you knew God.  It will greatly matter, one hundred years from now, that you made a commitment to Jesus Christ.”

If we can fully commit our lives to God as revealed in Jesus Christ the world will be forever altered.  If one soul comes to know Christ because of our relationship with the Lord and becomes a committed Disciple (follower of Christ) thousands of others over generations will also come to know God.  Communities will be changed and missions will be started, preachers, teachers and evangelists will be raised up to serve the Lord.  How committed are you to the cause of Christ?  Think about it won’t you?  MHP