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Saturday, March 3, 2012
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
The Fathers House
This week I'm reposting my summer series back from the old Tumblr called “The Shelter.”
I definitely wanted to tie something summer-y into the series this week, but I didn’t really come up with much. But I can tell you one thing, it’s been a hot week. For those who don’t know, me and my home church traveled down to New Orleans last week to “Love the City” through the missionLab program. And let me emphasize one thing, “It was HOT!” Not even the dry heat I’m used too but humid heat, kind of like you’re inside heated up Jell-o. So, I thought it would be cool down these next few weeks, and whats better to cool of with then water right? And what person knows more about water then anyone else in the Bible? Noah, that’s who!
But, seriously, God spoke too me through this passage about our responsibility as the House of God and even more personal, to ourselves as Christians, to reach out and help each other as people (despite color or creed) in this broken and dieing world.
Noah lived in much similar society we do today, one that is far from God. And that is what Chapter 6 of Genesis makes much of it’s focus. The Nephilim were the people on the earth at that time. And too save you time in reading about them (which I would post if I knew you probably would just skim over it) I’ll sum it up in one verse. 7 So the LORD said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth- men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and the birds of the air- for I am grieved that I have made them.”
I don’t know what kind of translation you have, but what I love about the way it says this is how it rounds the men right in with the animals. The people at this time had forgotten where they came from, and we see that we as people, even long ago, can truly do nothing outside of the Grace of God. We truly are bent toward sin, that’s why we need to keep in mind, that we as the Shelter of God, need to keep God as the focus, because if it becomes about us, we’ll not even be able to do anything for ourselves much less for those who are hurting around us.
I definitely wanted to tie something summer-y into the series this week, but I didn’t really come up with much. But I can tell you one thing, it’s been a hot week. For those who don’t know, me and my home church traveled down to New Orleans last week to “Love the City” through the missionLab program. And let me emphasize one thing, “It was HOT!” Not even the dry heat I’m used too but humid heat, kind of like you’re inside heated up Jell-o. So, I thought it would be cool down these next few weeks, and whats better to cool of with then water right? And what person knows more about water then anyone else in the Bible? Noah, that’s who!
But, seriously, God spoke too me through this passage about our responsibility as the House of God and even more personal, to ourselves as Christians, to reach out and help each other as people (despite color or creed) in this broken and dieing world.
Noah lived in much similar society we do today, one that is far from God. And that is what Chapter 6 of Genesis makes much of it’s focus. The Nephilim were the people on the earth at that time. And too save you time in reading about them (which I would post if I knew you probably would just skim over it) I’ll sum it up in one verse. 7 So the LORD said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth- men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and the birds of the air- for I am grieved that I have made them.”
I don’t know what kind of translation you have, but what I love about the way it says this is how it rounds the men right in with the animals. The people at this time had forgotten where they came from, and we see that we as people, even long ago, can truly do nothing outside of the Grace of God. We truly are bent toward sin, that’s why we need to keep in mind, that we as the Shelter of God, need to keep God as the focus, because if it becomes about us, we’ll not even be able to do anything for ourselves much less for those who are hurting around us.
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