We have missed a couple of Sundays lately---camping trip at Sam A. Baker, Jan's family's annual reunion, and our own family's getaway to the Smokies---and it was very special to be back in our church today. Cole gets baptized [in the creek] this coming Sunday. Our pastor is a very fine speaker who seems dedicated to expounding the Word. I found being in the worship service especially touching today.
The serenity and inspiration in all of God's vistas awaken in me a recognition of my emptiness without Him in my life and my dependence on Him if I'm to be any kind of a decent human being at all. The awesome quality of His universe is indeed thrilling! Awareness of that fearsome power and intent humbles me, yet assures me of my God's glory, goodness, justness, and power.
Faith is truly childlike, yet also remarkably supernatural. It is a "leap" in a sense, but can also be a "simple baby's step." In and of itself, it is not intellectual or emotional---it is a willed motion, deed, activity. Modern culture has little or no room for or acceptance of faith as a motivation or causation, and so I believe God will soon intervene in some dramatic fashion---to reassert to mankind that He is the legitimate Creator. I don't know this; I have no prophetic knowledge. But, we seem to have embraced sin completely, bathing in its illusory beauty.
Oh, well. I don't know much of anything for sure even after years of trying to understand . . . and I now traipse about inconsequentially. So, in the spirit of "silence is golden," I will stop.
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