Monthly Archives: May 2010

So much has happened since I last wrote. School ended, moved houses and started work all in less than a week. All great changes but as I sit outside on the porch of our new place it is so calm. I get to look out and see the sky with an occasional lightning bolt that dances across the sky. The animals are making sounds, even the birds are singing their song. The wind is blowing just enough to not be to cold or to hot. This night is just peaceful.

With life going as fast as I let it (and I don’t really mind) but I have been thinking about how much I have wanted to just sit in this peacefulness. I guess I have to time everything and I could have done this a lot sooner but tonight just feels good. I was thinking about the story of the wind in the Bible.

There was this guy Elisha who was a prophet, he was one that stood for God no matter what. He was in the middle of trying to stand up for God against the many prophets of Baal and Asherah. As Elisha was continuing to stand he was wanting to hear God’s voice. As he was listening there was a bunch of natural things that happened like fire and hurricanes, but God wasn’t in them. Finally when Elisha heard God, he was in the wind. He wasn’t the loudest voice, he was the smallest.

This has me thinking tonight that sometimes I allow life to get in the way of that small still voice. God is speaking in a whisper so that we have to stop to focus on Him to hear him. We can’t just give it a passing though, we have to be intentional about it. Its really cool when you think that the God who created everything is speaking to us in the smallest voice that is possible. But he isn’t doing it so we miss it, he is doing it so we listen. If someone is getting upset, the easiest way to calm them is in a whisper because they have to calm down to listen. Maybe that is what God is getting at, we have to press though the craziness of life, the stress, the ucky stuff so that we can hear him.

So i guess these are my random thoughts for tonight, and my computer is dying so I think im going to go and just sit and enjoy the peace I have found. I hope you all find that same peace and listen to the whisper….. if we all just listened to that maybe things would be different in our homes, our churches and our nation

KC

So I guess it was a few years ago that the movie “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” came out and brought the books into the public view. At one point in the movie when the characters are talking to the super computer and they ask the computer what the meaning of life is, the answer is 42. I have been thinking on this question for a while now and I can say that the answer is nowhere near 42.

When I begin to think of the reason why we exist, I started to think about who created us. I don’t think that we evolved, but if that was the method God chose then I’m ok with that… but I think the Bible is clear about how we were created. God created us in His image. I don’t think this was his physical image but our spirit is made after him. So that got me to thinking about who God truly is and what he is all about.

So after years of pondering the age old question of our existence, we exist to love. Pretty simple but not hardly. Love is a complicated thing that no one can quite understand until we understand our creator. God is love, he always has been and he always will be.  Our mission above all else is to be like Christ, the living God. At the core, everything else is insignificant other than love.

If we love someone, we will share the Gospel with them. If we love someone, we will help them. If we love someone, we will do anything for them. If we love someone, we are showing them God.

Christ told us that we should have faith, hope, and love, but the greatest is love. Love never fails, it never goes away even after death. It is the reason why we exist.

So life isn’t about us. It is about love. Love requires us to think outside ourselves, to be servants, to look to God to understand what Love is. Most people go though life trying to figure out how to love without looking to the one who created the idea. We should be so in love with God that we want to love others.

While 42 is a good guess, the most logical idea of why we exist is love. Love God, Love others.

Faith will fade when we see the heavenly gates because it is no longer needed, hope will be confirmed and we will not have to wonder about the beauty of the Kingdom when we get there, but one thing that will never end is love…. How are you loving these days? Faith, Hope and Love, but the greatest of these is love

Kyle