Our journey never starts with us, it is always He, Our Creator, who seeks us first!
Life. Is. Good. I’m laying on a hammock by Caddo Lake. There’s a cool breeze. The crickets and God-knows-what-else are playing a nature’s original set. Yes, it’s 4:45 am and my feet have more mosquito bites than I’ve had in the last year, and now I can’t sleep, but, I’ll say it again, Life is…
The ultimate gift that the Father has given us is a life to be lived. Each human soul presents the opportunity for a brand new canvas, a brand new iteration of how love incarnate can exist and ultimately go back to the source from which it came, Love itself. When I was younger and I…
What an amazing God we have! It’s Gospels like today’s that remind me of how “human” I am and how different God is from us.
“I am the good shepherd,
and I know mine and mine know me,
just as the Father knows me and I know the Father;
and I will lay down my life for the sheep.
I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold.
These also I must lead, and they will hear my voice,
and there will be one flock, one shepherd.”
JOHN 10:11-16
I mean, if I was all-powerful, I’m certain I would not have:
Chose to create creatures like myself.
Empowered them to make critical discussions about my creation.
Treated them like myself, including to the point of making equal deals (covenants) with them.
Sent myself to suffer and die for these creatures after they repeatedly failed to stay good on their promise.
The truly radical thing is that God, who is above time, knew all of this would happen and did it anyway. He could have hit the undo button at any point and wiped it away. But He didn’t (OK except may the flood, that was like a partial undo).
The refusal to hit the undo button on creation overall is not it. He intentionally created each and every one of us, knowing every single mistake that we were going to create. And He allowed us to live and have free will anyway.