Strange things and coincidences...
Before I get started I'll clarify a couple of things.
-the Easter Bunny is called Frank :D
-I have finally heard the rest of Steve the American's testimony with regard to getting his girlfriend pregnant at high school (for those of you who weren't there he brought this up pretty much every time he spoke but never said how it finished) his girl friend gave birth to the baby and soon afterwards he got married (to someone else) he and his wife a few years later got custody of his child and his wife legally adopted her. They then had three other children.
Anyway now that that unpleasantness is behind us it always amazes me how G@d can work through the strangest series of coincidences. I was in the meeting on Sunday night at Eastercamp and sitting there getting semi-frustrated as Eastercamp has traditionally been where I have encountered G@d and yet thus far I had not had an encounter with him. So during the worship which followed the sermon I sat there trying to find Him. I kinda felt that I should go out to the communion tent. Once out there I collected communion and sat down in a corner to pray. Shortly someone I know came over and sat down with me saying that they had felt compelled to come and pray with me. After I had taken communion they asked me where I was with G@d. To my embarrassment I responded with a string of Christianese while saying nothing about my actual situation nor why I was actually in the communion tent. I then asked the same question to them. I'm not going to tell their response for that is not my place to tell but I then responded and sought to encourage them. In recent times the times that I have felt closest to G@d has been when I have been speaking of Him and teaching of Him. Anyway a lot of what I ended up saying to their situation was also applicable to my situation and I realised again that it wasn't in the hype and excitement of Eastercamp that G@d is found but rather He prefers to be found in the calm and the quiet. I was reminded of the passage in 1 Kings 19:11-13
"He said, "Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by." Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of sheer silence. When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then there came a voice to him that said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
G@d is not found in the hype, the emotion, the excitement of big events and while He uses these things this isn't the way he wishes to relate to us. It is in living every day, in serving Him, and seeking Him constantly.
-the Easter Bunny is called Frank :D
-I have finally heard the rest of Steve the American's testimony with regard to getting his girlfriend pregnant at high school (for those of you who weren't there he brought this up pretty much every time he spoke but never said how it finished) his girl friend gave birth to the baby and soon afterwards he got married (to someone else) he and his wife a few years later got custody of his child and his wife legally adopted her. They then had three other children.
Anyway now that that unpleasantness is behind us it always amazes me how G@d can work through the strangest series of coincidences. I was in the meeting on Sunday night at Eastercamp and sitting there getting semi-frustrated as Eastercamp has traditionally been where I have encountered G@d and yet thus far I had not had an encounter with him. So during the worship which followed the sermon I sat there trying to find Him. I kinda felt that I should go out to the communion tent. Once out there I collected communion and sat down in a corner to pray. Shortly someone I know came over and sat down with me saying that they had felt compelled to come and pray with me. After I had taken communion they asked me where I was with G@d. To my embarrassment I responded with a string of Christianese while saying nothing about my actual situation nor why I was actually in the communion tent. I then asked the same question to them. I'm not going to tell their response for that is not my place to tell but I then responded and sought to encourage them. In recent times the times that I have felt closest to G@d has been when I have been speaking of Him and teaching of Him. Anyway a lot of what I ended up saying to their situation was also applicable to my situation and I realised again that it wasn't in the hype and excitement of Eastercamp that G@d is found but rather He prefers to be found in the calm and the quiet. I was reminded of the passage in 1 Kings 19:11-13
"He said, "Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by." Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of sheer silence. When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then there came a voice to him that said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
G@d is not found in the hype, the emotion, the excitement of big events and while He uses these things this isn't the way he wishes to relate to us. It is in living every day, in serving Him, and seeking Him constantly.
3 Comments:
Hey you're pretty cool J-rod.
so the saga of steves loins is complete... on dvd
Hey I only just got why your little pet bunny thing is called Frank! That was a good film. Interesting decision, though, to name your furry friend after the EVIL DEMONIC RABBIT OF DOOM! or whatever the heck he was.
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