Sunday, October 30, 2011

Week of October 30

Expecting God
Sowing our Prayer… Reaping the Spirit

God is changeless. In the world of events, he is everywhere present at every moment. In a truer sense that the most watchful human justice is said to be everywhere, he, never seen by any mortal being, is omnipresent, everywhere present, at the least and at the greatest, at what can only figuratively be called an event and at what is the unique event, when a sparrow dies and when the Savior of the human race is born. When to all appearances everything is unchangingness, in the upheaval of everything, he remains just as unchanged; no variation touches him, not even the shadow of variation; in unchanged clarity, he, the Father of lights, is eternally unchanged. Now change takes place around us, and the shadow of variation slides changingly over us; now the changing light from the surrounding world falls upon us, while we ourselves in all this are in turn changed within ourselves. But God is changeless.
~ Soren Kierkegaard ~

Monday
Genesis 12
Tuesday
Joshua 3- 4
Wednesday
Ruth 1-2
Thursday
Ezra 1
Friday
Esther 2
Saturday
Job 1 and  42

Each of these passages highlights a time of transition in the lives of people in the Bible or in the history of the nation of Israel.  As you read through these times of transition, look for ways that God works in the lives of the people.  Does God change his direction for the transition?  Is God supporting his people?
You may notice that God remains the same in each of these transitions; it is only the people, places, and events that change.  In our times of transition, whether it be at church, at work, or in the family, it doesn’t matter what changes: God doesn’t.  God still loves you.  God still supplies your needs.  We should respond to God’s changelessness by trusting him and by obeying his will.
Remember to pray for the Spirit to clarify the mission for Oak Chapel and for the Spirit to give us the power to work in this mission.

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