Special Meetings

There are moments, times, days, weeks, months, and, even, years that seem to be seasons of "Living in high cotton".  I know little of the cotton growing days of our past.  But I have heard the expression and can understand the sentiment.  In the church, we have regular meetings every week and regular meetings every year.  We, also, have special meetings that are scheduled from time to time.  Every one is a special meeting because our Lord Jesus Christ has promised to dwell with us.  He created the place with His own hands.  He has fashioned her according to His own liking.  He has completely furnished her with everything she needs.  She should not want anything else, especially from one that is not her husband.  It is a great, unspeakable joy to serve Him in His church with saints and friends and kindred.
Although we regularly meet and our Lord has promised to meet with us, we still observe that there are seasons of great adoration.  Recently, I (and I trust, we) have been made to enjoy such a season.  Mt. Gilead PBC in southwest Mississippi held our Winter Meeting, in the which we were made to feel a close communion with our Lord and a few of His children.  The messages were doctrinal and instructive.  They echoed the ancient teachings that have been taught throughout the years since 1873.  The week following, I again rejoiced in the message of grace at Macedonia PBC near Ackerman, Mississippi.  I attended two services but was lifted up beyond the sight of this world at the drippings of the gospel.  Please read and consider and meditate on I Corinthians 1: 30.  What a glorious text. 
The Lord willing, tomorrow we will gather with the good brethren of Plymoth PBC near Liberty, Mississippi to ordain a brother who has been set at liberty to the full work of a gospel minister.  The older I become the greater the thankfulness at times such as these.  The harvest is still as white as ever and the labourers as few.  But the Lord continues the same yesterday, today, and forever.  To see the gifts the Lord gives and strengthens His church with and to experience the glorious revival and renewing that reaches the children of God during prayer, singing, and preaching, grants me a peace that can only acknowledged by those of like precious faith who have experience the same.  All of those who have tasted such grace, mercy, and peace have been made to drink from the saucer.  May we have short and long seasons to continually drink from the saucer.
JLA