How did you celebrate 2007’s birth and beginning?
We are all different. God made you just the way you are, and there is no one else like you. In fact, those differences are seen in the way we celebrate the New Year. It’s a fact.
One of my children was asleep long before 10. Another was gone within a few more minutes. My wife slipped off to bed about 12:01. Our oldest child didn’t want to go to sleep at all…there I was ready for the night to just begin. Our teens at church prayed in the New Year and had a blast together until early in the morning. No matter how you celebrated, you were you. And that is great.
“My thoughts are completely different from yours,” says the LORD. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9 (NLT)
But what God did the same for us is who He is and how awesome He is. We continue to move toward the launch of The Community Fellowship church with joy, excitement and much more. God is big enough to do more than we could ever think up on our own. What I understand, more as of late, is that our view of God demonstrates our faith but it also limits God’s work around us. Think about it:
Mark Batterson writes: “We tend to rank miracles. Almost like a judge at a gymnastics competition that ranks a routine based on the degree of difficulty, we rank our prayer request. We have big requests and little requests. We have easy requests and difficult requests. But that is a false construct. The truth is this: to the infinite all finites are equal. There is no big or small, easy or difficult, possible or impossible. When it comes to God, there are no degrees of difficulty. There are no odds when it comes to God. All bets are off.” (from In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day page 33)
In 2007 lets let God be God. Lets think of Him as He is and as He is able. Big and capable. He is awesome and every where. He is unending and cares for you like you will never fully know. If he cares enough of a newly married couple to turn water into wine at their wedding (John 2) or to make a borrowed ax head float (2 Kings 6), then He cares enough to deal with us, answer our prayers and take us where we have never been before.
I pray that we will experience God in ways we have never thought possible as we celebrate the new year. Remember this and have a happy New Year…
“For I am about to do a brand-new thing. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness for my people to come home. I will create rivers for them in the desert!” Isaiah 43:19 (NLT)
We are all different. God made you just the way you are, and there is no one else like you. In fact, those differences are seen in the way we celebrate the New Year. It’s a fact.
One of my children was asleep long before 10. Another was gone within a few more minutes. My wife slipped off to bed about 12:01. Our oldest child didn’t want to go to sleep at all…there I was ready for the night to just begin. Our teens at church prayed in the New Year and had a blast together until early in the morning. No matter how you celebrated, you were you. And that is great.
“My thoughts are completely different from yours,” says the LORD. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9 (NLT)
But what God did the same for us is who He is and how awesome He is. We continue to move toward the launch of The Community Fellowship church with joy, excitement and much more. God is big enough to do more than we could ever think up on our own. What I understand, more as of late, is that our view of God demonstrates our faith but it also limits God’s work around us. Think about it:
Mark Batterson writes: “We tend to rank miracles. Almost like a judge at a gymnastics competition that ranks a routine based on the degree of difficulty, we rank our prayer request. We have big requests and little requests. We have easy requests and difficult requests. But that is a false construct. The truth is this: to the infinite all finites are equal. There is no big or small, easy or difficult, possible or impossible. When it comes to God, there are no degrees of difficulty. There are no odds when it comes to God. All bets are off.” (from In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day page 33)
In 2007 lets let God be God. Lets think of Him as He is and as He is able. Big and capable. He is awesome and every where. He is unending and cares for you like you will never fully know. If he cares enough of a newly married couple to turn water into wine at their wedding (John 2) or to make a borrowed ax head float (2 Kings 6), then He cares enough to deal with us, answer our prayers and take us where we have never been before.
I pray that we will experience God in ways we have never thought possible as we celebrate the new year. Remember this and have a happy New Year…
“For I am about to do a brand-new thing. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness for my people to come home. I will create rivers for them in the desert!” Isaiah 43:19 (NLT)
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