So the message from Mars Hill Church had to do with the kind of world we inhabit. A world filled with natural diasters, homeless, straving children, abused women, and war. Did you know that Yellow Stone National park sits on a Mega volcanoe. One that if t were to go off, which it could at any time, would spread ash all over New York City. Scary thought huh. Also consider the fact that astroids pass by our planet all the time and all it would take is one to wipe out populations.
Sometimes I find it hard to come to terms with the condition of humaity. We live in a world where chilren are dying every day because they lack something as basic as water! Women are being beaten and killed simply for being born with two x chromosomes. Families are losing thier homes and men are struggling to provide basic needs for thier children right in our backyards of Baltimore. Honestly it breaks my heart. When I see commercials of children in Africa or News stories of woman in Iraq I am reduced to tears. The burden that God has placed on my heart is so heavy sometimes that I have to run from it because I am so limited in what I can do in this season of my life. Fincially I can only do so much and being a student really limits my abilities to do much either. I pray everyday that God will increase that burden and passion because even though it hurts now to carry it I know it is for a purpose and it continues to drive me to graduate and persue what God wants for my life.
My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. (2 Corinthians 12:9a)
Another interesting fact that the message spends some time talking about is the vastness of our universe and how we can not even commprehend it with our finite minds. The stars, the galaxies, the fact that my body is doing a million things on its own to sutain me. At the core of this existence and life there is the God of all holding it all together. He alone is sustaining my life and breath. Even in this mess we have made God is here. He is not some distant creator who made up this world and then stepped back to watch us destroy ourselves. There is darkness in this world but there is light. There is chaos but there is meaning.
If God is for us, who can be against us? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:31b,35,37-39)
Breath taking isn't it? And God is sustaining it!
