Category: Random Thoughts

Have you ever had an experience where your random thoughts coalesce around a bigger thought or idea? Well, that is what I am ruminating on right now. My 4 X 10 white board in my office at work (I do this on breaks and at lunch)is full of what appear to be random ideas, concepts, verses, and such. My task now is to decipher the larger meanings. What is it that ties them all together? Here are a few of the components on my white board: The Barbarian Sheep (see prior posting), Serving Him by Serving You, the chorus form Lifesong by Casting Crowns, Joshua 1, Proverbs 3:5-6, 1 Peter 3, a meta-narrative for the entire Bible (similar to the Why God? postings).

The reason I share this is in part to ask “How is God talking to you?” These thoughts come from Scripture, music, books, studies, and other people. You see God talks to us in a variety of ways. Now don’t misunderstand me, I am not say that all these are divine revelation, this I reserve only for Scripture, however, I am saying that God more specifically the Holy Spirit can use a variety of ways to teach us more about who God is and how we should live our lives in a way that honors and glorifies Him.

In Lifesong the chorus has this line: “I want to sign Your name at the end of this day Knowing that my heart was true…” This is how I want to live. I want to know that at the end of day God would be proud of who I lived it.

To continue thinking about the restoration process…

Through people like Noah, Abraham and David God’s plan flowed. Though the Law and the prophets we can see the restoration process unfold. Though out the Old Testament we see restoration and redemption through the sacrifices and the keeping of the Law. When the people drew near to God, there were blessings, when the people fell away there were consequences. The prophets foretold of the Messiah, the one who was coming as the fulfillment of the the law. We see the restoration process completed in the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

It is through Christ that our sins are washed away. It is through Christ that our relationship with God is restored. It is through Christ that we are set free.

Why God? Because He cared enough that He sent His Son to die on the cross so that you I and might have a restored relationship with the creator of universe.

Picking up from the last post, Why God?, because He made the effort for restorations…

You see after creation came a life of communion with God. In Eden, Adam and Eve, had a close intimate relationship with God, their creator. This, I believe, is why God created us, for an intimate, personal relationship. However, Satan, one of God’s other created being, stepped in and disrupted the relationship. In Eden, there weren’t many rules but one clearly stated boundary was to not eat of the fruit from the tree. We failed sin was introduced into God’s perfect creation. Sin resulted in a separation between God the creator and his creation, you and I. God could have walk away at that point and said enough, be gone from me. However, that is not what God did, rather, we see from Genesis on through the rest of the Bible, that God has in fact a plan to restore the lost relationship.

Why God? Because He is concerned about our relationship with Him.

More on this later…