Stacy and I are adding a master bathroom and closet to our house. The addition is coming along nicely but there was a time where we wondered if they were ever going to get started! We were so anxious to have it done we might have even counted the days. Anyway, the day came where they broke ground, then they poured the foundation, added walls, put a roof on and added sheetrock. Today, it has just the basics: walls, doorways(no doors), holes in the wall for plumbing and electrical, and that's pretty much it. Over the past couple weeks, Stacy and I have been feverishly thumbing through the Home Depot website, faucet catalogues, and taking trip after trip to Lowe's and Sherwin Williams. We were not prepared for the sudden need to decorate! I mean it's all on us. There is no tacky wallpaper to build a color palate from and no pink shag carpet to deal with... it's a fresh canvas. We ask the contractor quite often, "What should we do here...?" and without a doubt his general response is, "Whatever you want to do...but can I make a suggestion?"
Our heavenly Father set before us, about 4,000 years ago, a basis on which to build our love for Him. He laid the foundation and put in the parameters. What follows next, many people miss. Much like the blank slate we have for a bathroom, God has established a relationship with us. We can decorate our worship slate however we want and however we have been gifted and the Ten Commandments, as we are coming to see in Sunday School, are given to us as expressions of worship. Our relationship with God is the foundation with which to build on. The misconception in our society is that all by ourselves we build from the ground up a relationship by which we meet God and learn about Him. Except, that's not at all how it happens. Stacy and I would look pretty silly in out in our backyard painting, laying tile, and trying to put up light fixtures before the bathroom is built!(Reminds me of an episode of the Little House on the Prairie)
God has loved us from before time began. He has shown us how to love Him and calls us back to fellowship with Him again. He has gifted each one of us in different ways and places us together as a body of believers so that we may worship Him together. The Ten Commandments were designed as a way to get to know God... not merely to get to God. The way to God is clear and specific. Jesus. The way we show our love for God is specific too. "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. "John 14:15
It may be out of left field. It may not be the way you've ever thought. Consider it.
Jordan
“He who fears the LORD has a secure fortress, and for his children it will be a refuge.” Proverbs 14:26b
Sunday School Summary Oct-Nov 2012
Oct 21-Nov 1 -- Sunday School Summary * WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT: "You've seen their shiny, happy faces staring at you from picture frames, magazine ads and commercials. They are the perfect family. Every tooth sparkles. Every face beams with joy. And they seem to have everything you don't. But the reality is, well they aren't real. In fact, it's an illusion. There's no such thing as a picture perfect family. Families are made up of imperfect people--people like you and me. So how do we live and interact with the family God has placed us in? How do we find a way to be a part of it, instead of just surviving and living for the day when we move on? Because no family is perfect. And no person is either. "
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