Good and happy October, sweet, dear and lovely friends! It’s time to figure out a blog update. Recent studies have been John and Genesis. Needless to say we have to fly through each book in only a week. They were a delightful study. Truly, both of them! Tom Morris, associate pastor at Calvary Chapel here in Yakima taught through the book of John last week, and Jeff’s (the uh, campus father) brother Ken Sutton went through Genesis all this week. A word of encouragement to anyone that has not previously loved the OT, it is totally beyond comprehension how many parallels there are simply in Genesis to the NT. To the Messiah. The Gospel story. It is entirely intimately one with the life of Jesus the Christ.
To share a driving point that hit me this week was the fact Jesus was not lacking in confidence. Shocking, right? Well, he not only created the entire world including mankind, but He then delegated to his creation a job; helping Him in this work. He asked Adam to be in charge of naming the animals. Quite possibly this was the first communication between Adam and God, and God was asking him to be involved in this great work! God was not incapable, but he was not afraid to partner with Adam, His own creation, in His work. How dare we be stingy with what God has entrusted to us, or so pious to think that we are the only one capable to accomplish His work. We are called to partner together in the work of Elohim, the trinity!
Another sweet thing to think about (also from the first day of Genesis study) is that God demonstrated a day of rest for us at the time of creation, as we all know. However, God rested because His work was done. Then in the NT Jesus, after stating that His work here was finished, also entered into His rest. He sat down at the right had of the father. As believers, we are at rest in Jesus Christ; I am at rest in my following of him. I won’t have rest if I don’t abide in Him though. It’s not that God don’t desire for us a day of rest during the week, He does, but our work here is not done until the day of Jesus Christ. We never take a rest from the Lord; He is our rest, Heb. 4. We know God now, but have no idea what our role could be in future generations; what God has in store.
Staring into another weekend! Tonight a group of us are planning to accompany the youth mission and its charges to a local corn maze. Sure to be aMAZing.
The rest of the weekend lies open! A few are going home to Seattle, and Emily F. is gone for the weekend… the rest of us are just chilling here in the compound. Oh, and perhaps watching the 6 hour version of classical, “Pride and Prejudice”. Hope I can catch up with some folks via telephone! Peace you all.