Genesis

1 - I like this new series. I get, at least in concept, the idea of giving it all to God. Where it's hard for me is knowing what that really looks like. For Peter it was easy, Jesus said follow me and he did. Maybe that's what we'll hear in the rest of the series. But, it is a question I have now. (Comment this)

2 - Exactly…sounds so simple when Peter or Paul or the others that just went on journeys did it -- not exactly knowing where they were going, all these people in the Bible just left. “With God, Let’s Go.” And they went. How does that translate to knowing where God is sending me?

Chris Tomlin says at the end of his book “The Way I was Made” “God created you with something huge in mind and that He’s specially gifted you to respond to Him with all of you, for all of your life…and on into eternity. Don’t let that moment of creation with your name on it go to waste for another day.” “We don’t have to be someone we’re not. Or wait until we finally have it all together. We just need to respond to His greatness…”

One of the God-awing moments of my life so far was listening to Louie Giglio’s Indescribable message at the Chris Tomlin worship event last year. I kicked myself for not inviting someone to go with me, if only for that very small moment they too could have sat in silence in the car after worship and look out at the night sky and wonder along with me if we will ever truly grasp the awesomeness of God’s creation.

Ah, it’s not about speakers or writers or musicians or getting anything out of the act of anything I do but rather about God’s HUGE greatness and my willingness to leave my baggage behind (the doubt, the sarcasm, etc.) and follow his lead in everything. Maybe being sent isn’t about a “journey” per se but more of a life’s work from now until eternity? I think the faulty conclusion that I leap to when I hear the phrase “Lord send me” is that it’s not always going to be some journey into the desert for forty years. It may not be a week’s journey to Ocean Springs – it’s not about ME at ALL but about God’s plan.

I don’t know which pastor shared this idea a while back but they said something along the lines of wishing they could put a mirror on the missions wall to remind people that although there are these great people doing awesome things to further the kingdom of God – that each of us is gifted to carry forth His message in our own way. (Comment this)

3 - We are studying in our small group Andy Stanley's Discovering God's Will and something that struck me from this week was the idea that a person who never starts trusting God, will never start the journey to understanding His will. I imagine as we grow in foundation of scripture and truth and are obideient, the idea being wholeheartedly committed to asking to be sent aren't so far out.

"caught up in the wave of where God is leading and am wholly and completely defined and dependant upon it." What does that look like? And if God's plan is individual can that even be answered without just a blind faith move of "giving it all to him"? (Comment this)

4 - Is there really such a thing as blind faith or is it just real faith? It's easy to place the awe on the tangible things we see and I clearly stand in awe of God that I only might know the small part of His vision for his kingdom and when you put it in terms of the galaxies and in Louie Giglio's talk he also mentions/shows the phenom the eye of God and has some other Nasa shots(recently swapped around e-mail) it isn't even easy to put into words the awesome-ness of Him.

Wholly and completely defined by God's plan, leave it all and follow me...I sit here tonight, prone to overthinking - what's the definition of God's plan for me? what is the "it" I'm leaving and where are we going? (Comment this)

5 - Upon reading Job I have this feeling that I’m just being stupid. Nope, I know it. The times I question why God has done something, the number of times I request an audience with him when its convenient to me – in the midst of His great and powerful to-do list I’ll interrupt with a question that maybe I’ll never get answered in this lifetime but probably the next or the number of times I become frustrated because I never seem to hear him and those words that tumble out without any thought to the idea that in Matt. 12:36 it states “ I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment."

It’s good to be reminded that only God is God. (Also explains the SCC song that seemed so simple - of course only God is God)

Of all the places I have marked in the Bible I don’t know why I’ve never thought enough to make these a reminder? (Excellent thunk on the the side of my head) He’s powerful and knows more than anyone and he loves you and he loves me in the midst of it all (and truly who even knows what all of it is ‘cept God?)
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6 - Anyone see The Second Chance movie that came out this weekend? What did you think? (Comment this)