It’s a little late for Halloween, but I thought I’d share.
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I’ve restored my ipod many times, but today I think the little sad face is final.
I may take out it’s guts and do a frankenstein on it at this point, but deep inside I know it will never be the same.
RIP - my ipod
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I have to make a bit of a confession here. It’s hard for me to pray a lot of the time. I get rushed along in life sometimes, usually driven by some inner turmoil that pushes me onward when I should be still. I worry about the little things I really need to let go of. I care more about people sometimes than they even care about themselves and I get anxious over things that they don’t even seem to care about in their own lives.
But when it comes down to those times I have where I can be alone with God, I get wrapped up in my own little plans. I forget about Him. Truth is, many times He’s the one who reminds me through some circumstance or situation. “Hey, I’m still here… wanna talk?” He asks me. I brush Him off so much, I know if He really didn’t love me He wouldn’t keep pressing the issue.
Finally, I am usually confronted in some way with something that is beyond me. Something I know I can’t handle on my own. I turn to God and make my requests like He’s my waiter taking my order. But this waiter is one of those annoying ones….
He sits down. He closes His little book where He is supposed to be jotting down my request. “How are you?” He asks. No simple ‘yes’, ‘no’ or ‘fine’ answers will do. He really wants to know. Not because He doesn’t know already, but because He knows it’s not about knowing, it’s about having a friend who cares enough to ask.
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I get being “open-minded” but unfortunately it usually seems to go too far in some respects. I have met way too many “open-minded Christians” who have completely abandoned the authority of scripture. It can be something insignificant as if the days of creation were literal or figurative to something as monumental as someone saying that the way to Heaven can be achieved through some other way than Christ.
But often I am left with one question when I approach scripture. What reading or interpretation of this gives God the greatest glory?
God will not be diminished through our interpretation, our views, our faith or our thoughts about who He is or how He works. He is bigger than that and He’s given us more important things to do than argue out details that have little bearing on the relationship He desires with us. Scripture will not bend for us.
II Timothy 3:16 says:
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
How could scripture even hope to teach, rebuke, correct or train us if it bent to our will and our desires whenever it pleased us?
Personally, I believe God is big, creative and powerful enough to have created all of earth and everything in it in one hour should he have chosen to do so. I believe the “rest” He took on the seventh day was likened to that of a musical score rather than of one being weary of the creation process. I believe He took His time because… well, He created time too didn’t He? I also believe He made the scripture quite literal but full of amazing imagery so that our imagination might glimpse the wonder of who He is through the resonance of dazzling miracles, beautiful visions and intricate manifestations of His purpose. Scripture is alive with simplicity, made whole through the person of Christ and resounding with the eternal glory of the Father at work.
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…A bit of a response after reading the comments and the post over at ASBO Jesus.
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My passions in life are my family, my relationship with God, creativity and expressionism. This blog, decloned, reflects those passions. My belief is that all true creativity comes from the Creator first and foremost.
