It IS a big deal!
Well, blog readers, owe you a bit of an apology, I
suppose. Haven’t posted much at all
lately. Have been in kind of a whirlwind
of activity, primarily book related. As
we near the production stage, have been reviewing cover proofs and text proofs,
and book format. Anyway, without getting
into the nuts and bolts of it, have been doing some significant revamping to
make things come together in the best way possible, making various extremely
time-consuming adjustments along the way.
However, just sent in one of the last major pieces of email, so should
be turning a big corner. Although, there
were more steps than I knew, all of which have taken more time than expect, the
indication is I should be able to tell you within just a few weeks that copies
are available. You will be able to get
some directly from me, but they will be able to be ordered through your local
bookstores as well, or the publisher.
Will provide details at the appropriate time.
So how about a thought for the day? Am reading a really good book I’ll tell you
about later, but one of the issues it raises is how much we take for granted
the freedoms and benefits those of us who live here in America have
automatically because we are here.
Education, a generally benign government, infrastructure…that sort of
thing. Sometimes, I think it wouldn’t
hurt to ask the same question of us Christians.
That is, do we take things for granted in our faith? I believe absolutely we do. I want to share one with you just to get you
started thinking about it a bit.
Here’s the deal. In
visiting with folks who aren’t particularly religious, sometimes I will ask
them what they believe in terms of God and so forth. Nine times out of ten, the answer I’ll get is
that they believe in God, and often, not much else. I raise the issue with them that the book of
James tells us that the demons also believe…..but they tremble. Then I point out that the individuals pretty
glibly said they believe in God, but the demons tremble when they say they believe
in God. Is that not a disconnect? Do they (we) REALLY believe? How is it that we, mere humans, can so flatly
state we believe in God, but have so lost the awe, the reverence, the
understanding of God that we don’t know enough to say so with a degree of
trembling?
Okay, sure, Jesus came and taught us God loves us and opened
the way to the throne, so there is a different relationship set up. But even so, it is still a THRONE, and the
one who loves us is still GOD. Have we
reduced God down to merely a nice old guy who loves us from there in heaven
somewhere? Have we eliminated
expectations from him? Do we forget what
the word omnipotent really implies? I’m
going to stop right here. I want to
invite you to really think about what I am asking. And examine yourself. Are you caught up in the reduction of the
awesome? We’ll talk again.
The photo was taken by the Hubble Telescope and is an image of gas and dust inside the Carina Nebula...pretty awesome, made by God!
TL:dr Have we lost
track of the awesomeness of God?
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