Hey! Thanks for reading this blog! I just thought that this would be a good place to share a few additional thoughts from each week’s chapter of The Story! I really hope you are enjoying the first week of this journey but more importantly I hope you are learning and growing and being challenged in your faith and relationship with the Lord. I know that it is pleasing to Him to look down on our Church family and see us reading His Holy Scriptures that He left for us!!
Those of you that have been around me and the Church for awhile know that it isn’t uncommon for me to make a movie reference in a sermon or throw a movie quote into a conversation. As a matter of fact, Several years ago I wrote an entire sermon based on the movie Forest Gump. I love watching a good movie and having some popcorn with it certainly doesn’t hurt!
One of my favorite all time movies is a movie starring Tom Hanks called Saving Private Ryan. I know there is no way to capture the true horrors of war but I thought this movie did it as well and respectfully as it could be done. This film had me locked in within the first 2 minutes and it held my attention for the nearly 3 hours that it lasted which is amazing considering I have a general rule that I don’t watch movies that are longer than an hour and 45 minutes. I didn’t set out to watch this movie, it just came on right after the show I was watching and like I said, within 2 minutes I was hooked!! The opening scene of this movie is crazy intense!!
God’s Word opens up the same way!! From the opening scene to the end it barely lets you breathe. Its opening scene starts with a relentless pace with the first line being, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). Right off the bat we find the main character in the story is not you and it’s not me. It’s God!! And the rest of The Story will unfold out of the nature and person that is God.
And it doesn’t take long to reveal God’s true passion. Is it Birds? Nope. Animals? Not quite. Sun, moon
and stars? As magnificent as they are, no! In Genesis 3:8 we find that God is walking in the Garden with Adam and Eve in the “cool of the day.” God is, and He is near. He is right with Adam and Eve and he is right here with us. His simple plan for His creation was to spend time with them every day, to take a walk with them. God’s greatest desire and passion is to be with us.
He wants to be with you, to walk with you, to spend time with you. He wants to be the object of your passion just as you are His! I know that the devil and your past and maybe even some people in your life tell you otherwise but its so true! God loves you, He is not distant from you and He isn’t waiting for you to make a mistake so that He can punish you! He cares deeply for you and He hasn’t, nor will He ever, forget about you or give up on you!
From the very beginning God has shown us that is not the case. He wants to be with you!! He wants to be in a relationship with you! Think about that, the Creator of the universe and of all things, wants more than anything else to hang out with you now and for eternity!! That’s amazing!! So, maybe today would be a great day to take a walk with Him!
Sincerely,
Joey
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