I Want it Now!
January 25-26th
Do you remember the girl who turns as blue as a blueberry in Willy Wonka? She is the really spoiled one who blurts out the line... "I want it now!"
Today I was talking to a woman who works in an OBGYN office. She was sharing about women who take birth control because they do not want to have children and then things change in their lives and they come in wanting a baby "right now".
"Unfortunately," she explained, "it rarely works out that way."
Later I thought about our relationship with God. For years we go along on our own, not wanting to be bothered with God or spiritual life all together. Then a crisis arises and we are calling out to God to show up right at that moment. The best part of the story is how much God wants us to find him, right now!
May these words of Paul brighten whatever journey you are on today!
Acts 17:22-28
Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: "Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you."
"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.' "
Do you remember the girl who turns as blue as a blueberry in Willy Wonka? She is the really spoiled one who blurts out the line... "I want it now!"
Today I was talking to a woman who works in an OBGYN office. She was sharing about women who take birth control because they do not want to have children and then things change in their lives and they come in wanting a baby "right now".
"Unfortunately," she explained, "it rarely works out that way."
Later I thought about our relationship with God. For years we go along on our own, not wanting to be bothered with God or spiritual life all together. Then a crisis arises and we are calling out to God to show up right at that moment. The best part of the story is how much God wants us to find him, right now!
May these words of Paul brighten whatever journey you are on today!
Acts 17:22-28
Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: "Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you."
"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.' "
