What a Crazy Love
I’ve been reading this book called “Crazy Love” by Francis Chan over the last few weeks and it has really opened my eyes to some incredible things! For instance, did you know that scientists currently estimate that there are nearly 350,000,000,000 galaxies in the known universe! Most of those have never even been seen with human eyes until their discovery with the Hubble Space telescope. Or that the average elm tree has approximately 6 million leaves on it! (I wonder how they figured that one out) or that the human heart generates enough pressure as it pumps blood throughout your body to squirt blood up to 30 feet! (I don’t recommend trying to prove this) as well as many other amazing facts of God’s creation and genius that it’s just simply “Crazy” that such a vast and creative Lord and Creator, would even want to be concerned with you and I.
The bible says “The heavens declare the Glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.” (Psalm 19:1) Chan suggests to us in chapter one of his book to “stop praying” for awhile – stop praying to God and take a long hard look at Him without speaking a single word… Solomon warned us not to rush like fools into God’s presence with words, yet often that just what we do.
Funny thing… it was just a week or two after I started reading this book, that a news story came out about one of the smartest men in the world (Stephen Hawking) making the bold assertion that there was no need for God in the creation of the universe! As I listened on to the news story on the news, I became saddened and angry to think that someone so influential could make such a bold and arrogant statement! “How could he say that?” I muttered to myself.
Even so, I quietly continued to read on in my book “Crazy Love” and within a few pages I passed upon another section where Chan quotes again from Psalms. Then I read it and froze for a moment… “The fool has said in his heart, there is no God.” (Psalm 14:1)
I paused in my book, turned off the television set and sat smiling to myself for a few moments as I went outside to look up quietly at all the stars in the sky I could see…
A collection of thoughts, ideas, prayers and experiences I have had over the years in my personal journey with Christ and growing as both a leader of worship, as well as a worshipper.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
What Dreams have you had lately?
What Dreams have you had lately?
All Things are possible through God as Abraham and Sarah would surely discover for themselves after many years of dreaming and hoping for a son, they just were not patient enough to wait on the Lord! They had to try and do things on their own and force the issue – thus came forth the son Ishmael. God shared with Abraham his vision and promise to him – His dream for Abraham as it were. But somewhere along the way, Abraham and Sarah began to lose faith in the dream that God had for them, and decided to speed things up – to do things their own way instead of God’s way and in His time.
We all need to have a dream. Without a dream or vision for our lives – we lose hope, we quit, we give up, we may even eventually perish!
“Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.” Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)
What dreams do you have for your life? What about dreams for your family or your church? Or even for your worship time with God?
Do we sometimes give up on our dreams too soon as Abraham and Sarah did trying to do things on our own? And what usually happens when we try to make our dreams happen too soon? If you’re like me, I usually mess something up somewhere and have either start over or give up in my effort as something goes wrong that I didn’t plan on.
A few years ago – I stood by and watched, helplessly as a once proud and noble church in our community slowly fell apart, crumbled, withered and died. A long time ago God gave the people of that church a dream – but some within the church chose to do things their way – rather than wait on the Lord and his timetable to work things His way. God gave Noah the vision to build a gigantic boat – but what would have happened if Noah had quit waiting for rain and given up building a boat just because it was just taking too long? God gave Joseph dreams of the future, but Joseph had no way of knowing that those dreams would save lives and shape the future of two entire nations! Dreams take faith to bring to reality. A faith that means not holding on or looking back at the past or worrying only about the present – but a strong faith to see the possibilities that God’s promise holds for the future!
What dreams have you had lately?
All Things are possible through God as Abraham and Sarah would surely discover for themselves after many years of dreaming and hoping for a son, they just were not patient enough to wait on the Lord! They had to try and do things on their own and force the issue – thus came forth the son Ishmael. God shared with Abraham his vision and promise to him – His dream for Abraham as it were. But somewhere along the way, Abraham and Sarah began to lose faith in the dream that God had for them, and decided to speed things up – to do things their own way instead of God’s way and in His time.
We all need to have a dream. Without a dream or vision for our lives – we lose hope, we quit, we give up, we may even eventually perish!
“Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.” Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)
What dreams do you have for your life? What about dreams for your family or your church? Or even for your worship time with God?
Do we sometimes give up on our dreams too soon as Abraham and Sarah did trying to do things on our own? And what usually happens when we try to make our dreams happen too soon? If you’re like me, I usually mess something up somewhere and have either start over or give up in my effort as something goes wrong that I didn’t plan on.
A few years ago – I stood by and watched, helplessly as a once proud and noble church in our community slowly fell apart, crumbled, withered and died. A long time ago God gave the people of that church a dream – but some within the church chose to do things their way – rather than wait on the Lord and his timetable to work things His way. God gave Noah the vision to build a gigantic boat – but what would have happened if Noah had quit waiting for rain and given up building a boat just because it was just taking too long? God gave Joseph dreams of the future, but Joseph had no way of knowing that those dreams would save lives and shape the future of two entire nations! Dreams take faith to bring to reality. A faith that means not holding on or looking back at the past or worrying only about the present – but a strong faith to see the possibilities that God’s promise holds for the future!
What dreams have you had lately?
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