Sunday 16th August 2009 A question?

"Each night before my grandmother went to bed, she checked that her house was tidy. She wanted to leave a clean, neat house 'as a testimony to unbelievers' if the Lord came during the night. We might smile at her concerns but, like Paul, she lived each day firmly believing that Jesus could return at any time. Both her heart and home were ready.

How many of us eagerly anticipate the Lord's return on a daily basis?" KYB study 3, 1-2 Thessalonians - The key to the future.

Stephanie and I were just thinking about that statement. We both agreed, to our collective shame, that we rarely think on a daily basis about Christ emminant return, even though we know it can happen at any time. Maybe we need to re-evaluate. Repent even.

On another thing that has been on my mind lately. I am a creationist/evolutionist. How is that for a contradiction. I believe that God created the world in seven periods of day/night. How long each of those periods in terms of hours might be is open to question. There is a line of thought that says they were 6/24 hour periods. God rested on the 7th. That is, He ceased creating. He didn't stop working. He stopped creating.

Genesis 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

God didn't stop working. Just from the work He had done. So, that takes care of the creating bit. Now for the evolving bit.

God created man complete in a sense. Man, and woman, could function but were not complete. God was still working in their hearts to conform them into His image. That, after all, is the purpose of man. To display God's image. To display God's character. To have God dwell in them. He would be the source, they would be the display. Go look in a mirror. A mirror has an image of you. Like us without God, the image in the mirror is incomplete. Again, for the image in the mirror to move, you need to move in order that your reflection in the mirror can move. The image in the mirror has no ability to move. As we also need God to make us complete us, we also cannot complete the image. Only God does. Our part is to act like the image in the mirror. We must let God move in us. To be the source of our effect. That image in the mirror can't move without us. Similarly, we can't move without God.