We started Intro to Preaching class yesterday. This is going to be a great class. We are already contemplating our first sermon to preach the middle of February. This contemplation has things revealed to me in my head at the strangest times. Below are some from early this morning:
If God is God with a big G then the God of the Israelites must be the God of all. For the God of all creation must also be my God and your God, as I am part of creation as are you. He is our creator. He must have created all of us for He spoke and all of creation came to be. And if our God is a triune God then His Son Jesus Christ is God also and he walked among us. He walked among us to save us. As Moses saved the Israelites from the slavery of the Egyptians, Jesus saved us from the slavery of sin. As Moses led his people through the wilderness to the land of Canaan so Jesus is leading us to the land of His Father. Is satan personified in pharaoh? Is he not willing to give us up? Is he chasing after us to bring us back to the captivity/slavery of sin? Is Jesus leading us to the Red Sea so that we may pass through the sea of the blood of the lamb? Our ultimate redemption is in that blood. Is satan going to drown in the blood of the lamb? Will the blood of the lamb redeem satan also? "For the love of Christ urges us on, because we are convinced that one has died for all, therfore all have died. And He died for all, so that those who live might live no longer for themselves, but for him who died and was raised for them." 2 Cor 5:14-15
Next thing:
Times seems to progress in speed as we get older. Imagine if you were more than 4.5 billion years old (according to scientists the earth is roughly 4.5 billion years old.) How fast would time progress? There has been an idea floated about that for God time travels at the speed of light. A second to Him is an eternity to us. So if this is true how long is seven days? How long is 1000 years? We seek to put everything about God in terms we can understand. Each year does He bring us a little closer to His time progression? I expect that when we meet our creator, our redeemer, we will find that there is nothing about God that can be explained by our limited human thinking, including the relationship of the progression of time. Maybe in our spiritual realm we will have a better concept of time as it relates to our creator.
We are starting to get into the Reformation in History and we start Lutheran Confessions tomorrow. Many of us are excited to be getting into some "meat" rather than just building backgrounds and foundations, which are necessary but not all that fun. We are starting to get into the fun. 2nd semester in, actually that is pretty quick I guess.
Down to 30 degrees this morning, since I was up so early I went and worked out. COLD outside. Forecast is 26 for a low Sunday morning. Have a blessed day. Steve
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I think when we do meet God, time willnot matter. Again, as Jesus is the word, and has been since time of Creation--does that mean all the stories of the Old Testament leading up to the birth of Jesus happened in a flash? Time is something that matters only to humans, and a time line continium as such has no place in heaven or with God. It is in the human realm, not the spiritual realm. But that is all we know at this time (*sorry) in our life. Sue
ReplyDeleteTime is a Relative term. One Day on Earth is Aprox 23:56:56 (This is why there is a Leap Year). A year is about 365.26 days.
ReplyDeleteOn Saturn a day is less than half as long and a year about 29.5 times longer.
Time slows down.. Time speeds up.. (Incredibly small changes, look up the Atomic Clock)
What is Time Relative to where God is? A God which Created Time? A God which operates outside of Time itself?