Monday, May 12, 2008

TWG - May 12, 2008

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TWG - May 12, 2008
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Genesis 48; Psalm 8; Matthew 13:31-59

Today is May 12, this is time with God, I’m Pastor Dennis - I’ve been waiting here for you. Welcome to our life transforming community. Together we are strong. As we walk though the word together we help each other grow.

Mother’s day is over. How was your Mom’s day off? We had some really nice services at church. A few good messages on Honoring Mother, a great breakfast, and some quality time with Susan and the Grand kids… who spent the evening with us. Shaphen stopped over for a few hours. Evie brought her mom by a nice little flower. I called my mom and wished her a happy mothers day. Then she talked to Susan for quite a while. I put a picture of the work Bill is doing on the handicapped parking on the blog at timewithgod.mypodcast.com. Susan is almost over the flu! And am I ever glad. And just a quick note about Saturday’s Time With God podcast… I’m having more computer problems. I didn’t get it all recorded Saturday. I have yet to see how my finicky computer will act today… I’m praying!

This week’s theme verse is Romans 1:19-20. What may be known about God is plain enough, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

How do we know that God exists? I’ve never seen him with my eyes. No one I’ve ever met has seen him. If seeing were the only criterion for proof of life, I would guess that most of the 6.7 billion people on the earth don’t exist… I’ve never seen most of them personally and never will. But, you may object, to verify the existence of these people, all you would have to do is get out there and meet them, “Hi! I’m Dennis and I’m here to verify that you exist.” “Well Hi back to you! I’m (anyman or woman) and I don’t need you to verify I exist. I exist whether you agree with it or not! And another thing: I don’t care whether YOU exist!” The only people who really care whether everyone exists are tax collectors and bean counters. So let’s say that I have a space ship that can travel the entire universe in an attempt to discover God. If he’s out there I’m going to find him. I’m on a mission for man. The universe is so vast that I can’t be sure I haven’t missed him somewhere, somehow, sometime. There’s bound to be some corner of the universe I haven’t checked out, some small planet or office building on the third floor I haven’t discovered yet, where God is holed up. But wait, hold that thought, because trying to find God in our universe is sort of like an ant trying to find the creator of the ant farm in the terrarium itself! “Have any of you ants seen the ant farm guy anywhere in here?” The guy with the big bug eyes staring in from the outside is the creator, but how’s an ant to know? God the creator is also outside of his creation. He’s not part of the ant farm. Any ant that tries to verify the existence of the ant farm guy by traveling to the outer reaches of the terrarium is going to be sadly disappointed. And yet all he has to do is look outside the box and (providing the ant farm guy is as interested in them as God is in us) there he is! Now here is the interesting thing, of all the 6.7 billion people on earth, only about ½ a million people don’t believe there is a God! And if they were honest they DO believe there is a God, and they are him (so they think). Since God is such a universal phenomenon, is that not an odd coincidence? If God is as universal as, say, gravity or oxygen, maybe some people are wasting their time trying to prove the world is flat. God exists… that’ plain enough for everyone to see! Apparently.

Dear Creator God. I believe in You. I know there is so much evidence for your existence that I’d be a fool not to believe. Thank you for caring that I exist! Thank you for finding this small blue planet to send your Son to die for my sins, that I might know you in a very real and personal way. I love you. I know you love me!

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