So Much is at Stake!

Weak and Useless

I don’t remember ever starting a column on such a negative.  Hold tight!  This may work to become helpful.

Have you ever looked at what you are accomplishing and think, “I’m getting nowhere.  I can’t do this.”  I’ve had that experience recently and I want to share it with you.

I feel God is leading me to more intensely study His Word so that I can better apply who He is to education and life issues.  I’ve been studying and floundering.  I’ve had some success and some failure.  Then it came to me.  “I’m too old.  I can’t do this.  I can hide behind old age.”Immediately as if by voice God spoke to my heart and said, “Did you ask ME?”  I realized that I had fallen for an old trick.  Dear Moms, I thought of you and wondered if you, too, were falling for the same trick – you can’t do it.  Let someone else do it.

I went back to God’s thought to my heart, “Did you ask ME?” and surrendered.  Then the thought came to me, “God didn’t want me trucking through the study on my own with all of my good skills.  He wanted me to surrender, to realize that it was all up to Him.  The useless feeling was a good thing because it carried me to where God wanted me.”

Understanding our Foundation

We will continue to make emphatic the teaching of creation as it relates to all things.  Why the emphasis?  Creation is the foundation stone for understanding God’s wisdom, love, power and authority.

Consider:  Romans 1:20 “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.”

Even Greater Purpose

Consider this from Psalm 102:18 “This will be written for the generation to come, That a people yet to be created may praise the Lord.”

So much is at stake!  We will show God as reveled in Scripture.  Planting seeds that will burst forth to show the greatness of God to yet another generation.

How can we but shout at such a prestigious calling?

What an opportunity we have been given to show God in all of His splendor in our everyday choices, like whether to go to a ball game or not.

Library

In all of the electronic helps that we have, don’t overlook the resources available to you at the library.  If you can’t find what you need, ask for help.

The library is a great place to find a book to get you stared in drawing, music appreciation or foreign language.

Go Green

In all of the celebrating that we hear about our responsibility to preserve the earth, don’t lose sight of the plan for the earth that God reveals in His Word.  Man was not called to worship the earth but to have dominion over it.  Animals, flowers, trees were given to man for a purpose.  Man is required to practice good stewardship because these things are a gift to him from God.

Man, and only man, was created in God’s image with ability to think abstractly, draw moral conclusions and relate to God unlike all other creation.

All of creation has purpose.  Our job is to discover how God’s plan works and our part in it.