What Would God Have Me To Do?

"What would God have me to do? What is God's purpose in my life?" These are questions some people ask. I ask them of myself, usually when wondering if I'm responsive enough to some higher calling.

Questions like these leave the people who ask them with an uncomfortable feeling. And yet, in one sense, it's good to wonder about God's purpose for you; it's an acknowledgement of God's importance in your life. People with no regard to God are not "burdened" with such thoughts--which are actually blessings leading to even bigger ones.

Inspired, King David wrote, "You have hemmed me in, behind and before. You have laid your hand on me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain."

Awareness of God's hand on your life is an enabling realization.

Amazing Technology

I'm looking at a photograph of a little girl standing by a wall in Jerusalem. And I'm thinking: "fearfully and wonderfully made", that's for sure. I look at that little one and marvel again at the technology God called forth. Our science and engineering offer nothing that comes even close to that amazing work in the photo. And God's technology gets even better, for scriptures speak of a time when Christ will transform our "lowly bodies" to be like his glorious body, and when we will know even as we are known...

All is Calm. All is Bright.

Christmas is not about our gifts to each other.
Christmas is about God's gifts to us.
And Christmas is everyday.