Sunday was a chaotic day of worship! Thanks to Caris and her team for leading us and the Diaconate for all of the work they did with communion, baptism and praying for people. Congratulations to Charles Schultz, Daniel Smith and Matt Nolan on their baptisms! Make sure you pray for those who were sitting near you on Sunday. We are in this journey together!
We looked at the beginning of Creation through the fall and then to the Flood, understanding that these events that are described are not just written to tell us what happened, but why things are the way they are. Haven't you looked around and asked how things have gotten to be so horrible? Where is God in the midst of all the evil that is in our world? The first 9 chapters of Genesis reveal the answers to these questions, and begin to look ahead to God's answers for these problems.
We already have seen how easy it is for we humans to decide we know better than God what we need. We eat that fruit from the garden daily knowing it causes death, yet rationalizing that God must not have meant it since the fruit is pleasing to our eyes, smells great and is good for food. We quickly turn to our own desires and talk ourselves into thinking that it is God's will for us. How wrong we are and the consequences are devastating.
But God does have a way for us. We don't need to stay in this place. The best that we can offer will not be enough to save us. Adam and Eve were perfect and blew it. Noah was blameless and fell short. But God is working to bring all people back to him, with a great deal of patience.
The beginnings explain the predicament we find ourselves in and help us to understand why the world is in this place. We also can see that God is working, even when we don't see anything happening. Hang in their as you walk through this week.
An Apprentice of Jesus,
Kevin
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