A System
August 21-23
System- a regularly interacting or interdependent group of
items forming a unified whole.
We don't quite have our system down at school, but it will come!
One of the summer reading requirements was a book by Kate DiCamillo
called "Because of Winn Dixie". Winn Dixie is a dog, so we celebrated
this reading by having a Winn Dixie day yesterday and students could
bring their dogs for show and tell. We had a detailed schedule and
system for the day, but when you are working with 23 students, their
parents schedules and their dogs it doesn't always go as planned. We
knew we just had to go with the flow and pray without ceasing!
God knew from the begging we couldn't keep his system (laws),
so why did he even establish such a system.
Read in Galatians below and praise the Lord for coming up with a
system called "Jesus"!
Galatians 3:20-22 (The Message)
"What is the point, then, of the law, the attached addendum? It was a thoughtful addition to the original covenant promises made to Abraham. The purpose of the law was to keep a sinful people in the way of salvation until Christ (the descendant) came, inheriting the promises and distributing them to us. Obviously this law was not a firsthand encounter with God. It was arranged by angelic messengers through a middleman, Moses. But if there is a middleman as there was at Sinai, then the people are not dealing directly with God, are they? But the original promise is the direct blessing of God, received by faith.
If such is the case, is the law, then, an anti-promise, a negation of God's will for us? Not at all. Its purpose was to make obvious to everyone that we are, in ourselves, out of right relationship with God, and therefore to show us the futility of devising some religious system for getting by our own efforts what we can only get by waiting in faith for God to complete his promise. For if any kind of rule-keeping had power to create life in us, we would certainly have gotten it by this time."
System- a regularly interacting or interdependent group of
items forming a unified whole.
We don't quite have our system down at school, but it will come!
One of the summer reading requirements was a book by Kate DiCamillo
called "Because of Winn Dixie". Winn Dixie is a dog, so we celebrated
this reading by having a Winn Dixie day yesterday and students could
bring their dogs for show and tell. We had a detailed schedule and
system for the day, but when you are working with 23 students, their
parents schedules and their dogs it doesn't always go as planned. We
knew we just had to go with the flow and pray without ceasing!
God knew from the begging we couldn't keep his system (laws),
so why did he even establish such a system.
Read in Galatians below and praise the Lord for coming up with a
system called "Jesus"!
Galatians 3:20-22 (The Message)
"What is the point, then, of the law, the attached addendum? It was a thoughtful addition to the original covenant promises made to Abraham. The purpose of the law was to keep a sinful people in the way of salvation until Christ (the descendant) came, inheriting the promises and distributing them to us. Obviously this law was not a firsthand encounter with God. It was arranged by angelic messengers through a middleman, Moses. But if there is a middleman as there was at Sinai, then the people are not dealing directly with God, are they? But the original promise is the direct blessing of God, received by faith.
If such is the case, is the law, then, an anti-promise, a negation of God's will for us? Not at all. Its purpose was to make obvious to everyone that we are, in ourselves, out of right relationship with God, and therefore to show us the futility of devising some religious system for getting by our own efforts what we can only get by waiting in faith for God to complete his promise. For if any kind of rule-keeping had power to create life in us, we would certainly have gotten it by this time."
