Deacon's Diary

Deacon's Diary for Sunday-April,13th

deaconlwg | April 14, 2008 03:17

Deacon's Diary is a weekly feature that appears on the back side of the bulletin at the First Baptist Church of Avalon, Texas.

 Let me be the first to say.

We all know that Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. Carried up there in the Apollo eleven craft, he set foot on the moon on July 20th, 1969. Russia Yuri Gagarin was the first man to orbit the earth back on April 12th, 1961. Most of us have heard about Sir Edmund Hillary, who on May 29th, 1953, was the first man to reach the top of Mt. Everest. Most of us didn't know that a man from Norway named Erling Kagge was the first man to go to the South Pole all alone in 1911, and most us probably didn't care either. Many of us have probably heard that Ferdinand Magellan and his crew are credited with being the first to sail around the world back in 1522, but did you know that a guy named Joshua Slocum was the first to do it all alone in 1898? Probably not. But because we have become the great record keepers that we are today, all that is now part of our history. All that and much, much more. Some things are not so clear, like whom was the first to fly a mechanical airplane. Was it the Wright brothers, Richard William Pearse of New Zealand, or Otto Lilienthal of Germany? Other things are more clear, but on the trivial side, like the man named Gene Rychlak that became the first man to bench press 1000 pounds. What all this means is that we are, and have always been,  somewhat obsessed with keeping up with 'firsts'. We all know that George Washington was the first man to become our first president. In November, if Hillary Clinton is elected, she will be the first woman to become our president. That would mean Bill would be the first man to become, well, the first man.


All these 'first' are all well and good I suppose. Some of them mark noble and triumphant achievements. Others don't really mean anything at all other than they were just first. Some of these things were shocking because they proved that things that were previously believed to be impossible were not impossible at all.


 While some first, like the one about flying, are still disputed in history, there are a couple of them that are not disputed at all. The first sinner on this planet was also the first man on this planet. And the first man to go through this world without sin was also the first and only Son of God. Because of His sacrifice the impossibility of us as sinners to be reconciled with a Holy God is no longer impossible. Let us all be among the first to say, "Thank you Jesus!"

 

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