Awe and Wonder

While I drink my tea this morning, I’m sitting at my kitchen table gazing out at thousands of snowflakes falling. It’s said that no two snowflakes are the same. They all have a unique lattice structure, just as each human has a unique set of fingerprints. I heard yesterday that scientists are looking at the bacteria on our bodies and have discovered that we carry and spread our own unique set of bacteria on everything we touch.

It seems that creation is wired to show us how each any every part of our lives is unique. There are overarching patterns and themes, but every voice carries its own melody into the symphony.

Speaking and Serving

Last week, Pastor Alex finished his series called “Wired,” that was about our personality gifts that God gives each of us. He said at one point that the gifts were divided into two broad categories: speaking gifts and serving gifts. My top two were speaking gifts.

Religion and Orphans

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
James 1:27

Have you considered adoption? If you are like most people I know, you have adopted, or considered adoption of a furry companion, but have not seriously considered adopting a child.

Fix Your Thoughts

Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.

- Hebrews 3:1

Freedom from Slavery

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

Proverbs 6:5

No Cell Phones

It is good to wait quietly
for the salvation of the LORD.

Lamentations 3:26

I’m making overhead announcement slides for a church again. I enjoy doing it. This is my scripture for turning off cell phones.

Obedience to God

I’m currently reading Under Cover: The Promise of Protection Under His Authority by John Bevere. I truly desire to be obedient to God in everything that I do. Hopefully I will gain some supernatural clarification as I read through this book on what areas I have been disobedient, where I need to repent and change and obey the Lord.

Honoring Our Leaders, Even When It’s Hard

Do not revile the king even in your thoughts,
or curse the rich in your bedroom,
Ecclesiastes 10:20

What Should We Do Then?

The Roman Empire was a plentiful and abundant society, much as our society is today. The people loved to watch sporting events, eat delicacies, and surround themselves with sensual pleasures. In the midst of that, John the Baptist came and called out to the people.

Lord of Heaven and Earth

Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other.

Deuteronomy 4:39 (NIV, emphasis mine)

Thank you Lord for the incredible range of blessings that you pour out on our lives. You have formed us out of a world that is so beautiful, so diverse, and so awe inspiring that we see your works in all of nature. I pray that we would learn to appreciate the ways that you speak to us through the creation, and that we would learn each day how to become less connected to the machines that man made, and more connected to our Creator, and His creation.