SmGS Update

By the grace of God, our small group has been meeting semi regularly for the past two month, listening to Father Anthony’s Series on the Song of Songs. Already, people are feeling a bond and looking forward to meeting, and God willing we will continue to grow and glorify the name of our Father and his son Jesus Christ and that the Holy Spirit guide us and eventually lead us to ministering to others.

Prayers Requested

How Great is our God

I really feel stupid – alot. Its ridiculous how many times God “proves” himself to me, and how ten minutes later I’m ADD with something else. This really is the story of my life but here are two examples.

1) We are preparing to go to Africa in a couple weeks – and its getting to crunch time.  I helped out last year in organizing the luggages and stuff, and there were so many ways that God intervened in providing, from getting the things to shipping and customs, he provided for us.  Well this year, we had nothing of the large amount of things that we are supposed to take to support the mission. PANIC! thats what I did. Forget how God provided last year in the same situation or even more how he provided for us when we were in Africa. What happens? I get a couple emails from a person saying that they got so many items, than another email saying they got more, then a text message saying that we got $500 of medication donated.

Overall, its a message I’ve probably “learned” 10000 times.  God doesn’t need me, he wants me to participate in service just as a witness to HIS GRACE, a believer in HIS POWER, and an intercessor through PRAYER.  Anyone can run around and stress over a situation (like what I did), but it takes someone who really trusts God to put it in prayer.  And we really do have every reason to trust in our Father.

2) The book of Job – this made me realize how Im so easily swayed by the wind.  The book would go back and forth between Job, who says how God is sitting there in heaven unfairly focusing this torment on him, and his friends, who become Gods lawyers in advising Job.  I found myself swayed by every single arguement. When Job was speaking, I would think man God is really unfair to us.  When the friends would speak, I would think I am just a dust particle in the sands of time – God has revealed himself so many times to us as the Lover of Mankind.

Clearly, I know God is my loving father.  No arguments needed.  But I was tossed by all these arguments, even though eve3ry single one was wrong – both Jobs and the friends.  I hear so many arguments, especially living in academia, for and mostly against God – and for what? Because people are bored and dont know what else to talk about or God knows what reason.  The arguements in Job were directly related to these to me – wasting 36 out of 42 chapters on useless and vain thoughts.  But rest assured – God is my loving father.