Tag: Christ
God is Greater Than All My Unanswered Questions
I don’t have all the ANSWERS! And I don’t CARE!
“You are worthy, O Lord our God,
To receive glory and honor and power.
For you created all things, and they exist because you created what you please.” (Revelation 4:11).
I never really thought or saw this before but, it is important to realize that from the beginning of the Bible (Genesis) to the end of the Bible (Revelations) God is telling us that He created the world. It is also worthy of pointing out that this is one of the hardest topics to witness and prove to people. With the world today teaching our kids evolution and everything else besides intelligent design it is harder and harder to get people to believe in a God they cannot see. Not only that it is hard for them to get them to believe that God spoke something into nothing and from nothing came everything that we currently see. The facts are that while we may not know what to say when someone asks us about these tough questions, the truth is always the same. God did indeed create something from nothing and we are not God’s sales person who needs to convince people of the facts we know are true. God is His own salesman and we are just called to do what we can to be His hands and feet. A hammer does not look at a house and say, “Look at what I just built!” The hammer without the Carpenter is nothing… We are the hammer and as
Genesis 1:1, 2 says, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. 
God created it whether we believe it or not that does not change the fact that He is who He is… God is not made smaller by our small view of Him. He is the God who created something out of nothing and gave us the honor to be made in His image. I am challenged every day to see the world God created and see Him in all of it and so should you…
God is bigger than our explanations of Him and I find it refreshing when people do not act like they have all the answers, because we don’t… If I had all the answers to the questions of God then the God you and I serve would not be a Big enough God to serve. I am glad I don’t have all the answers because in that He keeps me coming back to know Him better.
From the beginning to the end of the Bible it tells us the same story God is the creature that’s the “start and finish of it”
Don’t Be a LUNK!
D.T.R.
DEFINE THE RELATIONSHIP…
Last night in church we started a new small group that really gets you to think about where you are with Christ. It is based off the book by Kyle Idleman called Not a Fan. Define your relationship with God? This is not for us to judge others based off of our relationship with God but to take a good self-evaluation of where we truly are with our creature… Are you a fan our are you a follower? Most fans would say they are followers… the Pharisees would have said they were followers and yet they killed Jesus. A fan is an enthusiastic admirer, you may know all the scripture in the world but do you have a true relationship with God. Followers are devoted and sacrifice is required to be a follower.
Luke 9:23, “Then he (Jesus) said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.”
As Uncle Ben would say, “With great power comes great responsibility.” God has empowered us with the Holy Spirit now we are responsible to do something with that daily! In the Gospels Jesus says believe in me something like five times but He says follow me twenty! We are to follow Him! Being a committed follower of Jesus means that He has an all access pass to your life. Is there rooms that you are trying to keep Jesus out of?
So have you DEFINED THE RELATIONSHIP with God yet… or did you just say a prayer of salvation and left it at that? God does not want a causal relationship with you where you come to church and put your two dollars in the tithe plate then forget about Him the rest of the week…
JESUS WANTS TO GIVE YOU A COMPLETE OVERHAUL NOT JUST A TUNE UP!
SO ARE YOU A FAN OR A FOLLOWER?
Are We Just Glorified Slaves?
Are you locked up and don’t even know it… Are you just a glorified slave? 
Romans 1:25, “They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator–who is forever praised. Amen.”
We live in a world that is full of technology that is supposed to make life easier, but instead we all know that it just makes our lives more complicated. The fact that we can sit with our heads buried in our phones and not even recognize that there is someone next to you struggling is proof of that. This web of technology does entangle us in a never ending web of busyness and hurry, which makes us forget about the fact that there are real people hurting around us. Having our cell phones with us everywhere we go including the bathroom makes us forget the importance of human contact and even takes away time from God. When we wake up and the first thing that we do is look to see how many likes we have on a post or maybe you check to see your Twitter numbers… When we do these things there is something completely wrong with our thought process! The first thing that we should do in the morning is not to check social media but it should be to connect with God! Have a real heart to heart with our creature. We are too busy with the created things that we phase out the one who made them all possible. Imagine if you spent as much time with God as you do on Facebook, I have to be totally honest with all of you if I did that my relationship with God would be much, much stronger than it is now. It is sad to think that we have all this technology to get things at a moment’s notice yet we forget that God just wants a little of that precious time that we are trying to save. Today I will look at my life and see how I can truly give myself a way to God…
So what will keep you from God…?
Romans 8:38-39, “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
I am convinced that in this modern world that we live in we could add to this list; neither cell phone or tablet, computer nor job…
Whom are you a slave to? We can be a slave to technology or we can be a slave to God… The choose is yours!
Here is to NEW beginnings!
BE PREPARED TO BE UNCOMFORTABLE…
“Therefore, If anyone is in Christ he is a new creation, old things have passed away behold all things have become new” (2 Cor. 5:17).
The renewed man acts upon new principles, by new rules, with new ends, and in new company. The believer is created anew; his heart is not merely set right, but a new heart is given to him. But sometimes you have to crash and burn first…
Evil Knievel attempted more than 75 ramp to ramp jumps in his life time. A failed jump over Snake River Canyon left him with 433 broken bones. He had to crash and burn to become what most people call one of the greatest American Icons. In the Silicon Valley fortune 500 companies won’t hire you until you have lost a million dollars first. Why you may ask? They want to see what you do after you crash and burn… Our lives are full of testimonies but until we come to Christ we do not see them as such. Like the Phoenix that rises from the ashes we are also new creations in Christ and everything that we go through is the uncomfortable things that we need to grow closer to God.
BE PREPARED TO BE UNCOMFORTABLE!
If you want to grow you better be prepared to live outside your comfort zone…
“Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me” (Matt. 16:24).
The cross that Jesus was hung on weighed over 400 pounds to be on the conservative side. Jesus told us to deny ourselves and carry that cross… Talk about out of your comfort zone. Anyone that has lifted weights knows that after a few reps of shoulder presses you feel the burn, but it is not until you push past that burn that you get to the next level. Sometimes crashing and burning draws you closer to God.
So… “Let us not grow tired of doing what is right, for after a while you will reap a harvest of blessings if you don’t get discouraged and give up” (Gal. 6:9).
So when you crash and burn and feel uncomfortable remember that you are a new creation, and diamonds are forged out of pressure… Metals are forged in the fire 🔥
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” (Romans 8:28).
This includes the crash and burns of life!
BUT IN THE END BEAUTIFUL THINGS COME FROM THAT PRESSURE AND FORGING!
We need a Savoir
Let’s be honest in the world today people see right and wrong in totally different ways. There is slowly becoming no absolute truths. Know one wants to be wrong and every ones opinions count and matter…which I respect in some ways but there is an absolute truth that is still alive today in our beliefs that God lays out for us in the Bible. We are not people that make mistakes in need of correction.We are sinners in need of a Savior.We need more than a second chance.We need a Savoir!
William A Horton
Dr. William A. Horton 