17 November 2016
Back Again
NO, I am not dead!!!.........like I have risen from the dead. Its been a long time since my last efforts on blogging. Many things have taken place in my life since then. Will share with y'all some of my experiences during my hibernation from this blog.......soon. Oh ya, I will be posting more often. I certainly hope that my writing skills return....!!🔜
16 November 2008
Do it again God
I am finally starting to understand who God is in my life. It is at times that i feel like i am on an assembly line doing robotical movements or events from day to day. Totally forgetting that God is the hardest worker on the assembly line. Let me give you an exert from Mark Batterson's book called Wild Goose Chase.
"Right now you have no sensation of motion. I'm guessing you're sitting still as you read this book. But the reality is that you are sitting on a planet that is spinning around its axis at approximately 1000 mph. Planet earth will make one full rotation in the next 24 hours. Not only that, but you are also hurtling through space at approx 67000 mph. And you didn't have any big plans for today! Before the day is done, you will have travelled 1.3 million miles in your annual trek around the sun.
Now let me ask you a question. When was the last time you thanked God for keeping us in orbit? I'm guessing never. Lord, thanks for keeping us in orbit. And i was a little nervous about making the full rotation around our axis today, but You did it again. Most of us don't pray that way. But isn't it a little ironic that we have a hard time believing God for the little stuff while we take the big stuff for granted? Come on, if God can keep the planets in orbit, don't you think He can reorder your life when you feel like it's spinning out of control?
Keeping the planets in orbit is a perpetual miracle of unparalleled proportions. So why aren't we overwhelmed with awe over our annual orbit? Why don't we ceaselessly praise God for our spinning globe? The reason is simple: we take constants for granted. And that is the problem with God, if I may say it that way. God is the ultimate constant. He is unconditionally loving. He is omnipotently powerful. And He is eternally faithful. God is so good at what God does that we tend to take Him for granted.
Thomas Carlyle, the 19th century Scottish essayist, once imagined a man who had lived his entire life in a cave stepping outside for the first time and witnessing the sunrise. Carlyle said that the cave man would watch with rapt astonishment the sight we daily witness with indifference.
In the words of G.K. Chesterton, "Grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. Is it possible God says every morning, 'Do it again' to the sun; and every evening, 'Do it again' to the moon? The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore"
"Right now you have no sensation of motion. I'm guessing you're sitting still as you read this book. But the reality is that you are sitting on a planet that is spinning around its axis at approximately 1000 mph. Planet earth will make one full rotation in the next 24 hours. Not only that, but you are also hurtling through space at approx 67000 mph. And you didn't have any big plans for today! Before the day is done, you will have travelled 1.3 million miles in your annual trek around the sun.
Now let me ask you a question. When was the last time you thanked God for keeping us in orbit? I'm guessing never. Lord, thanks for keeping us in orbit. And i was a little nervous about making the full rotation around our axis today, but You did it again. Most of us don't pray that way. But isn't it a little ironic that we have a hard time believing God for the little stuff while we take the big stuff for granted? Come on, if God can keep the planets in orbit, don't you think He can reorder your life when you feel like it's spinning out of control?
Keeping the planets in orbit is a perpetual miracle of unparalleled proportions. So why aren't we overwhelmed with awe over our annual orbit? Why don't we ceaselessly praise God for our spinning globe? The reason is simple: we take constants for granted. And that is the problem with God, if I may say it that way. God is the ultimate constant. He is unconditionally loving. He is omnipotently powerful. And He is eternally faithful. God is so good at what God does that we tend to take Him for granted.
Thomas Carlyle, the 19th century Scottish essayist, once imagined a man who had lived his entire life in a cave stepping outside for the first time and witnessing the sunrise. Carlyle said that the cave man would watch with rapt astonishment the sight we daily witness with indifference.
In the words of G.K. Chesterton, "Grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. Is it possible God says every morning, 'Do it again' to the sun; and every evening, 'Do it again' to the moon? The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore"
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