The Eye of The Storm

Tag: Jesus

  • Eternity – Past and Future

    God – He’s all around us. He is eternity future and eternity past.

    But something that I am still struggling to wrap my head around is the fact that the holy trinity is also eternal – both in our future and in our past. The holy spirit existed in the Old Testament. He hovers over the waters in Genesis 1:2. And He guides and protects the Israelites (Isaiah 63:10-14). There are so many examples of the spirit of God being active in the Old Testament.

    Jesus is there too. Yes, he’s there; even before He came to us in the form of a baby. He is mentioned all through the Old Testament. Genesis 3:15 predicts the crucifixion. The Passover Lamb in Numbers 9:12 can be cross-referenced to John 19:36 where we learn that Jesus’s bones were never broken.

    God knew when He specifically required the lamb for the Passover sacrifice, that in roughly 1500 years, His son would be referred to as “The Lamb”. And that is just one example of so many.

    What an amazing God we serve and worship. One Who providentially lays out our lives and coordinates events and circumstances in ways that are just awesome. Yet we doubt Him. And we question Him.

    And over and over He gives grace and mercy.

    Thank you, God, for all that you have been, are, and will be.

  • Make it about Jesus

    Make it about Jesus

    What books of the bible do you gravitate to? For me it’s the middle of the new testament. Books like Galatians, Ephesians, and Colossians.

    When discussing this with my husband this morning, he asked me why I gravitate to those books. After some thought, I came to the conclusion that it’s because I can make those scriptures more about me than Jesus. The book of Ephesians for example starts out with Paul telling us about our identity in Christ. He then goes on to teach us what to do with who we are in Christ. Ephesians 1:4 says, “Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.” That is encouraging and reassuring scripture. It’s also very easy to make it about us, and not Christ.

    I am guilty of choosing the easy stuff in scripture. But we need the hard stuff too; maybe even more.

    I’m challenging myself to study scripture that is hard. Maybe that means dissecting a chapter from Isaiah, or Revelation. What ever that might mean for you, let’s work on finding Christ in scripture and getting to know more about Him so we can be more like Him.

    Let’s make it less about us, and more about Who’s we are.

  • When God Gives Us More Than We Can Handle

    Yep, you heard me right, sometimes God gives us more than we can handle.  Now I know what you are thinking….”but the bible says God WONT give you more than you can handle” You’re right, it does say that.  Sort of.
    First Corinthians 10:13 says “No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability; but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
    The problem is that most of us stop at the semi colon. We see where it says “God will not let you be tempted beyond your ability”.  We often hear it said that “God will never give us more than we can handle”.  It is often spoken to encourage someone who is struggling and is spoken in love.
    Here’s the thing we need to understand though – God DOES give us more than we can take.  He does test us.  The key is to read the rest of the verse.  “GOD IS FAITHFUL, he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability”.  HE WILL PROVIDE A WAY OUT.  He gives us way more than we can handle….WITHOUT HIM.
    We can’t do it alone, and we are not meant to.  God is with us every step of the way, and we need to let Him take the wheel.