God is able.: September 2009

Monday, September 21, 2009

...He hangs the earth on nothing.

In class we have been learning about God's attributes as well as looking at creation and God as Creator. As we look around us or even at our own bodies we can see the awesomeness of God's handiwork. One example of God's awesome creation is the sense of smell. Humans can recognize around 10,000 different smells. Not only do we recognize smells, but smells can trigger memories linked with those smells that are stored away in our brains. Or how about the difference in size of creatures. The Blue Whale has a heart the size of a Volkswagen Bug, man has a heart the size of his fist and a hummingbird has a heart the size of a grain of rice. Man was created in man's image with the capacity to think. Just think of Adam in the garden when he was coming up with names for all the animals, what a huge task that would be. God created man with a great capacity to think and use our brains. We do not take advantage of what God has given us and we sell ourselves short. We serve an amazing God. He created the universe, the earth and all that is in it. Wow. What a privilege to serve Him.

Here at the training we have what is called the Christian Life Experience. This is just another name for ministry and it can take on many different forms. Please pray for me as I am looking for opportunities to serve God by building relationships with people in the surrounding communities. Please pray, too, for all of the staff and students here on campus and our relationships with one another. So far we are still getting to know one another and it can be exciting, but there will be hard things to go through in the future as is true of relationships.

Thank you all for praying for me, we serve an awesome God!

Job 26.7,14

Ephesians 4.1-16

As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope when you were called— one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. This is why it says: When he ascended on high, he led captives in his train and gave gifts to men." (What does "he ascended" mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions? He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.) It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.