“Lord
Kenneth Clark, internationally know for his television series Civilization,
lived and died without faith in Jesus Christ. He admitted in his autobiography
that while visiting a beautiful church he had what he believed to be an overwhelming
religious experience. ‘My whole being,’ Clark wrote, ‘was irradiated by a kind
of heavenly joy far more intense than anything I had known before.’ But the ‘gloom
of grace,’ as he described it, created a problem. If he allowed himself to be
influenced by it, he knew he would have to change, his family might think he
had lost his mind, and maybe that intense joy would prove to be an illusion. So
he concluded, ‘I was too deeply embedded in the world to change course.’ (Our
Daily Bread, February 15, 1994.)”
Lord Clark waited too long. He didn’t heed the words of Christ, “Sin no
more, that nothing worse may happen to you.”
In Lord Clark’s case, the “worse” was eternal separation from God’s
presence.
Join us this week at ElmCreek Community
Church as we read the words of John 5:1-15 and witness the power of Christ over
sin. May we prayerfully be prepared to
encounter His Truth found in His Word.
Striving to know Christ and make Him known,
Pastor Mark
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