Dear Servant

      While driving to town to pick up my dry cleaning, I was wondering what to write for the church newsletter .  I began thinking, “What does God want to say to His people?”  If God wrote me a letter, “What would it say?”  The mythical character “servant” came to me immediately as the recipient.  But how would God sign His name if he were to write?  The burning bush and God’s proclamation to Moses seemed the perfect answer.  I wrote the first one in my head before I got to the dry cleaners. Little did I realize the events I set in motion?  

I have had many reactions to these letters.  Some are convinced I am a blasphemer and others that I am a prophet.  I confess that I have at times been the former (God forgive me) but I am not convinced I am the latter.  Regardless of who I am, many of these letters get a reaction.  One letter in particular, about unforgiveness, led to two families leaving the congregation I served.  One woman felt I wrote the column about a problem she had with another church member, confronted me angrily, and refused to speak to me ever again.   Another family thought I wrote the article about their family feud.  They would hear no other explanation and soon left the congregation.  

In truth, that article like most was about a problem I was having.  I was dealing with unforgiveness towards a fellow minister and a former church I had served. God spoke to me plainly through the Sermon on the Mount about how we must forgive others to receive his forgiveness.  Most of what you read on this site is really what I feel God has spoken to me about in my life.  I confess many of these letters are very personal and private and I only include the most important points to get the meaning, but many have a bigger story.

I only have two aims in writing and publishing this site.  First, I want you to know God. There is only one perfect, divine, revelation from God, His Word, the Bible.  He speaks volumes within those pages if we listen to His Spirit.  Read it and see if He does not speak to you.  Second, I want you to hear Him and have a personal relationship with Him.  God is revelation.  His amazing love and revelation that lead to his Son coming to earth and being our perfect sacrifice gives testimony to this.  God wishes to speak to you.  If you will only listen, what will He say?

 Finally, many want to know who the author of Dear Servant is?  I am many things: a son, a father, a teacher, a student, a counselor, a minister, and a sinner. First and foremost however, I am a servant of our LORD and Savior, Jesus Christ.  I remain anonymous because I do not want to be the focus of these writings.  He and He alone is God.  To know Him is to be complete.