Day 2- morning
Well, I woke up at 6:30 AM but told myself to go back to sleep and I did. At 8 AM I rolled out of bed to see that is was raining quite a bit here. Ate some breakfast, sat on the porch reading an article about how we as preachers may not preach enough about sin. Interesting read. I agree with most of it. I feel like I don’t shy away from talking about sin, hell, and the cross, but I want to make sure I am clear every time I talk about it so to not confuse anyone. I am a strong believer in God’s conviction tugging at a heart more than my words having any true power outside of God using them.
Went for my walk with Jesus today. Prayed for my family, prayed for staff at church. Prayed a lot for our church. There is always so much going on at that place that I can easily get consumed by it. There are the administrative issues which you can’t ignore in a setting like VNC. There are things that need to get done, sermons to be prepped and bathed in prayer, lives to be invested in, unscheduled meetings, and dynamics of a staff that are there because we are real people too who need each other in this journey. I was looking for some answers this morning and got nothing. I am not expecting an audible voice, but an overwhelming sense of peace would be great to have!
The only thing that I felt led to do was to go back and start reading the book of Hosea. So that is what I have been doing right before this post. The first two chapters are a powerful demonstration of how much our God loves us in spite of our choosing sin over Him way to many times. A lot of meat in this book that I will probably do as a series in the fall… unless God has something else in mind as I read through it. Maybe it is just a message for me.
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