Thursday, April 26, 2018

Legos and Logos

If you've been around small children lately, you've seen them create with legos--plastic interlocking toy bricks. They come in various colors and sizes and a person can build cars, castles, flying ships, or anything else one's imagination inspires.


 



With Logos, an ancient Greek term for God's Word, one can build a life--more than anyone's imagination can conceive. God's Word is beyond science, beyond history. Although we may not see it today or tomorrow or in the next decade, the pieces will all fit because they're in God's hands--His perfect vision for your life, the Master Creator. While He's fitting the pieces together, you will not remain the same person. Think of the mystery!

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Got Questions? God does, too.

As human beings on a spiritual journey, we are going to have questions. Lots of them...What do you want for lunch? Why did you get home so late? are not the kind of questions I'm thinking of.


Why do the innocent suffer?
How can human trafficking, politics without principles, 
       murder, rape occur in a world God created?
What is heaven like?....
These are the kind of questions I'm speaking of.


It is okay to ask God questions. God created us to be curious. In asking, we have the potential to develop a closer relationship to our Creator. And, also in asking, we hopefully learn to trust.

There are over 3000 questions asked in the Bible. The book of Job asks the most. In its 42 chapters, Job asks questions; his three friends ask questions of Job. However, my favorite part starts in Chapter 38 when the LORD finally speaks with His questions.

Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? .... 
Who shut up the sea behind the doors?... 
Have you ever given orders to the morning? ....
Does the hawk take flight by your wisdom and spread his wings toward the south?
Does the eagle soar at your command and build his nest on high?


Possibly our questions are best answered by reading God's questions to Job....