With love and prayers by F. Jarvis. Quotes IX

-What can you possible say to young people as they look to the future?
-At this point all David had was faith, his believe that the God who had delivered him from danger in the past would show him a way now in the present.
-What can I do? I am not brilliant or handsome or powerful. I don't have the necessary training.
-With quiet and abiding trust in God, David persisted in the face of this universal contempt.
-They dared to face the contempt heaped on them. They dared trust that the Living God could use their apparently insignificant lives to overcome the strutting and powerful giant. And it turned out that they were the realistic ones, and it was they who prevailed.
-The world is filled with people like the army of Saul and the Israelites in the wilderness who stand around wringing their hands in despair and assuring everyone that nothing can be done.
-Jesus of Nazareth commanded no army, held no public office, knew none of the influential people of his time, never even went to college or achieved success in business. He was put to death, silenced as a nuisance. His few followers scattered in fear and despair. And yet this single person has had a more powerful impact than anyone in all of history. He was armed only with a single weapon: love.
-I do not feel sorry for you, I do not despair about the future that you have to face. I do not wring my hands in dismay about what lies ahead for you. In all of history, there has never been a more thrilling time to be alive than this moment. Humanity faces the greatest crisis it has ever faced. Nothing less that the survival of the human race is at stake.
-In that moment of temptation remember David. Remember David's faith, ridiculed as naive and unrealistic by everyone from his brothers to the king. Remember Moses and Jesus. Remember the Davids of every generation: Rosa Parks and Desmond Tutu, the few in every generation who believed that the Living God could use even their pathetically tiny talents to challenge the giant evils of their time.
-I do not despair for you. I rather rejoice. Times of maximum danger provide maximum opportunity. If our time is the most dangerous time in all of the history, it is also the most sublime. Some of you who are sitting here this morning will find the faith and courage to place your lives in the service of the Living God confident that He can use what little you have in his great purpose. And like David, in his service you shall prevail.