Saturday night Nicole and I started a devotional together: Sacred Marriage by Thomas, it left us with some great thoughts after our 6 months of marriage. We cannot give into selfishness, we can never respond with sin, and that our one motivation must be reverence for God and “that” must be our BCM (basic control module). To all those who are married I hope those apply to you as well as they do to us.
The Preeminence of Last
Today Nicole and I were walking into church just thinking about how this is the last Sunday service before we begin our training… we just really soaked it in and dwelt upon the experience… we love our Church, the people of Harvest Baptist are just so sincere and purposeful you are “to a point” spoiled with love from the Church congregation.
Pastor Skelly preached another Biblical message from the passage of Psalm 34, really emphasizing the context of that passage where David was fleeing from Abimelech to the town Gath, whose “hero” Goliath, David slew many years ago. Such a transition in David’s life, the one promised to be King (for all intensive purpose and from God’s perspective was King), to now a fearful man-made to run to his enemies post. Fear can make you do seemingly crazy things, I guess that’s why God said “Trust in the Lord”, and that he did not give us a spirit of fear, but “of power, and of love, and of a sound mind”. Pastor belabored the fact that every time is a great time to praise God, because He is always good! This passage of blessing God, made during a time of despair, was written in a way to be memorized. In the original Hebrew Language, the text uses an acrostic or pneumonic device to begin each verse with a different Hebrew letter. God made a passage easy for us to learn how to bless Him!
During this transition of our lives, we want to bless God and to have a spirit of power. We want to live out verse 3 where we cannot magnify God Himself (who can not get any bigger), but magnify God in us, with the hopes of magnifying God in others through ourselves. We are so “stoked” for this next step in our lives, and yet will miss our biological and church families. We are so blessed to have you all (yinz if you’re from the burgh) in our lives.
We had lunch today with my (Seth) parents, for the last time before we start training. My mother prepared a feast and we left full, full stomachs and full of love. 🙂
Stoking The Fires 