God’s timing…

Have you ever felt like you needed to be doing something for God, but it is not clear what or how.  Or maybe  you know what it is, and for some reason the time, or the material, or the know how to do this thing you know God has called you to is just not there…

It is very frustrating to see something that God has shown you, a time in the future when this plan has ome to completion, yet now it lays in ruins, in waste…

Just think how Zerubbabel felt when he was trying to rebuild the temple, as governor of the Israelite community returning from captivity.  He wanted to make progress, but it was a long enduring slow process…  The foundation of the physical temple had laid in ruin for over 2 decades, mocking Zerubbabel and the task before him.

But the thing Zerubbabel and we must remember is that it is all in God’s hands, and on God’s time.  The temple was still there and God was still leading and guiding his people, just as he is today.  So let Him take care of you, just like the birds of the air and the flowers of the field…

Facebook | Videos Posted by Todd Zielinski: Shallow Theology, Shallow Love – May 2, 2010

Facebook | Videos Posted by Todd Zielinski: Shallow Theology, Shallow Love – May 2, 2010.

Great message on this past weeks lectionary…

Thank you Todd for opening yourself up to posting this for the edification of all!

The Core of Lutheran CORE American Civil Religion and White Male Backlash – Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

The Core of Lutheran CORE American Civil Religion and White Male Backlash – Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

I thought this article was interesting, some good points, some questions raised…

Wonderful Joke from ahajokes.com

Transylvania vacation

Bob Hill and his new wife Betty were vacationing in Europe, as it happens, near Transylvania. They were driving in a rental car along a rather deserted highway. It was late, and raining very hard. Bob could barely see 20 feet in front of the car.

Suddenly the car skids out of control! Bob attempts to control the car, but to no avail! The car swerves and smashes into a tree.

Moments later, Bob shakes his head to clear the fog. Dazed, he looks over at the passenger seat and sees his wife unconscious, with her head bleeding! Despite the rain and unfamiliar countryside, Bob knows he has to carry her to the nearest phone.

Bob carefully picks his wife up and begins trudging down the road. After a short while, he sees a light. He heads towards the light, which is coming from an old, large house. He approaches the door and knocks.

A minute passes. A small, hunched man opens the door. Bob immediately blurts, “Hello, my name is Bob Hill, and this is my wife Betty. We’ve been in a terrible accident, and my wife has been seriously hurt. Can I please use your phone??”

“I’m sorry,” replied the hunchback, “but we don’t have a phone. My master is a Doctor; come in and I will get him!”

Bob brings his wife in. An elegant man comes down the stairs. “I’m afraid my assistant may have misled you. I am not a medical doctor; I am a scientist. However, it is many miles to the nearest clinic, and I have had a basic medical training. I will see what I can do. Igor, bring them down to the laboratory.”

With that, Igor picks up Betty and carries her downstairs, with Bob following closely. Igor places Betty on a table in the lab. Bob collapses from exhaustion and his own injuries, so Igor places Bob on an adjoining table.

After a brief examination, Igor’s master looks worried. “Things are serious, Igor. Prepare a transfusion.” Igor and his master work feverishly, but to no avail. Bob and Betty Hill are no more.

The Hills’ deaths upset Igor’s master greatly. Wearily, he climbs the steps to his conservatory, which houses his grand piano. For it is here that he has always found solace. He begins to play, and a stirring, almost haunting, melody fills the house.

Meanwhile, Igor is still in the lab tidying up. His eyes catch movement, and he notices the fingers on Betty’s hand twitch. Stunned, he watches as Bob’s arm begins to rise! He is further amazed as Betty sits straight up!

Unable to contain himself, he dashes up the stairs to the conservatory. He bursts in and shouts to his master:

“Master, Master! … The Hills are alive with the sound of music!

You are more

I was driving into work this morning listening to KSBJ out of Houston…  and Tenth Avenue North was on.  They played a song live that is coming out on their next album, the song is called You Are More. What a wonderful way to start off the day! Here is a link to a video on YouTube of Mike Donehey talking about the song.

The song talks about how “we are more than the choices that we make, we are more than the sum of our past mistakes, we are more than the problems we create, you’ve been remade!”  It is not about who we are or were, it is about what Christ did for us, for me, for you.  That is what defines us.

Mike Donehey this morning on the radio said “to quote Batman, ‘it is not who I am, but what I do that defines me.’ and for the Christian it is exactly the oposite, it is not what I do that defines me, but who I am in Christ.”

If we could all understand this, image the impact we would have on the world, because we are called to be his hands and feet and in order to be able to do something for Christ, we have to know who we are in Christ. When God looks at us he sees Jesus! Always remember you are more – you’ve been remade!