Welcome to Greeley Seventh-day Adventist Church

Adult and children’s Sabbath Schools meet at 9:30 a.m. There is an adult class in the sanctuary and all the children’s classes will meet downstairs. Everyone is welcome.

Church In-Person or On-Line

Everyone is welcome to attend the worship hour at 10:45 a.m.  

We broadcast Church live on youtube.com. Church will start at 10:45 AM.  Go to youtube.com and search for “greeley sda”.  Click on the circle with the church picture.  You may need to choose the “Live” tab.

OR click on the “Sermons” link in the menu selections above to access the services. (On a phone or tablet the menu selections will be in a button that looks like three bars at the top of the screen.) Select “Live” in the youtube site tabs.

Wednesday – 1:30 p.m.  Midweek study 

Sabbath 4:00 – p.m.  End Time Events with Shawn Korgan

Poppies and the Sun (Son) – “We do not know what to do but our eyes are upon You.” 2 Chronicles 20:12 NIV

Our older daughter lives in Tehachapi, CA, and will sometime send us pictures of the hills surrounding her place when they are covered in Poppies. Because I have commented on how pretty they are, she brought us some Poppy seeds to plant. We sprinkled them on the ground last Fall, and this Spring they began “popping” up. One interesting thing I have noticed about them – the blossoms only open when the sun is shining on them. At night or on cloudy days the blossoms stay closed. I knew there had to be a spiritual lesson there.

I had been reading a book by Karl and Claire Haffner called “Are You More Spiritual Than a 5th Grader?” I thought this paragraph was a good summary of the lesson I was looking for about my Poppies. “To overcome sin, live in the SON. Don’t waste your time trying to be holy. Instead, live in the presence of He who is holy. Then, as you live in the security of God’s unconditional love, He will fight your battles, and you will be changed into His likeness.” (Page 84) In other words, Poppies need the sun to open and bloom; in the same way, we need Jesus, the Son, to live a victorious Chrisitan life.

The phrase “fight your battles” reminded me of the story of King Jehoshaphat and a battle he thought he would be fighting against an army from Edom. The king had just been engaged in a war that was against God’s will with catastrophic results. Apparently, he had learned his lesson because he went to God in prayer saying: “We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.” A prophet came to tell the king that “The battle is not yours but God’s.” And that is precisely what happened. When his army reached the battlefield, they discovered their enemies had turned on themselves!

I read a story about a little girl who seemed to understand better than her dad about God fighting our battles for us. This was the story:

     During a family vacation, Sarah got a little ornery and pushed her sister Hannah.

     “Did you push your sister?” her dad asked. “No,” she denied. Since this was becoming a growing pattern for Sarah, her dad decided to take a walk with her to get to the bottom of  things. “Sarah,” he told her, “I’m really disappointed with your behavior. What do you need to do about it?” He expected Sarah to tell him she needed to stop lying and apologize to her sister, but instead, with tears in her eyes, she said, “I need to ask Jesus to come into my heart.” 

The dad had been focused on behavior modification, but the 6-year-old knew she needed forgiveness, cleansing, and internal spiritual change.

We need to remember “the battle is not yours, but God’s.” Our “battle” is to spend time daily in the presence of the Son surrendering our lives to Jesus.

Sharon Oster

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