A Jar of Peanut Butter and Old Crow Medicine Show...
What a combo. Well, here is the long awaited update to my blog. I know that many of you have been chomping at the bit to see all of Adam's feelings poured out like a drink offering for all the world to see. However, I am not sure if this blog will satisfy all of those desires.
This week has been great. I subbed a little bit as well as work at the church (both very beneficial for me). I also saw my perfect little baby niece dedicated to Jesus this morning at my sister and brother-in-law's church. That was awesome and I know they will certainly abide to the commitment they made this morning. I also had a chance to share about World Hope and Bosnia to a group today in Gastonia. I am finding it hard to share all the good things World Hope is doing around the world in such a small amount of time. Nonetheless, I will continue on hoping that some will feel burden to partner in the work going on through World Hope.
I have recently been in the book of Genesis and Exodus and its mind boggling to see how God worked back then. I know that God is the same yesterday, today and forever, but He certainly interacted with His people differently then. I was reading about the Passover feast that the Jews had to prepare. It was so odd the things they had to do and the order in which they had to do them. I did some reading on it and have actually been a part of a Passover Feast, so I understand the meaning of each element and why they had to do those things. However, they had to be so maticulous in what they did, and it makes me wonder that my 20th century White American background may prevent me from fully understanding a B.C. Jewish ritual, and I am ok with that. I have learned so much about simple odedience from those books. I know they had several gods to choose from in that culture and yet they chose to follow YAWEH. The situation is no different today as we too have many gods to follow and the One True God wants our allegiance. I am so glad God is leading me through the O.T. so that I can see how simple people's simple obedience eventually led to Christ and all His works.
How can my simple obedience also then be used to bring Jesus Christ into a world that needs him?
Here are some thoughts. Quite possibly, more to follow.
This week has been great. I subbed a little bit as well as work at the church (both very beneficial for me). I also saw my perfect little baby niece dedicated to Jesus this morning at my sister and brother-in-law's church. That was awesome and I know they will certainly abide to the commitment they made this morning. I also had a chance to share about World Hope and Bosnia to a group today in Gastonia. I am finding it hard to share all the good things World Hope is doing around the world in such a small amount of time. Nonetheless, I will continue on hoping that some will feel burden to partner in the work going on through World Hope.
I have recently been in the book of Genesis and Exodus and its mind boggling to see how God worked back then. I know that God is the same yesterday, today and forever, but He certainly interacted with His people differently then. I was reading about the Passover feast that the Jews had to prepare. It was so odd the things they had to do and the order in which they had to do them. I did some reading on it and have actually been a part of a Passover Feast, so I understand the meaning of each element and why they had to do those things. However, they had to be so maticulous in what they did, and it makes me wonder that my 20th century White American background may prevent me from fully understanding a B.C. Jewish ritual, and I am ok with that. I have learned so much about simple odedience from those books. I know they had several gods to choose from in that culture and yet they chose to follow YAWEH. The situation is no different today as we too have many gods to follow and the One True God wants our allegiance. I am so glad God is leading me through the O.T. so that I can see how simple people's simple obedience eventually led to Christ and all His works.
How can my simple obedience also then be used to bring Jesus Christ into a world that needs him?
Here are some thoughts. Quite possibly, more to follow.
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