Patience

     I want to start today with a very personal note.  Computer problems, health issues as well as several other problems have caused delays in this blog.  I know this causes discouragement in following it.  However, I will endeavor to post something each day if only a greeting or a Scripture for you to ponder. 
Today, I woke with a renewed concept of the patience of God to reach His goals.  It highlights the impatience of mankind and the insignificance of most of our goals.  But goals express much of our nature, dreams and abilities.  Some goals are birthed in young children and are achieved to be enjoyed through many years.  Others never seem to reach the height of their goal and settle for less.  But that too is part of our human limitation.  God knows no limitation.  The only limitation God reveals is that which He has imposed upon Himself for our sake.
     Some people stumble when science talks about something being billions of years old.  It is cause for our rejoicing in the wisdom, love and patience of our God.  Before anything was created, the only Begotten Son of God was crucified for us!  The wisdom of God to create man in His own image is beyond our comprehension.  If it took billions of years to come to the victory and triumph of our standing in His Presence to do His eternal will, it is still only a blink in eternity.  "In the begining" starts with God's expressed purpose to make man in His image.  Before anything was created, the Son was begotten.           Colossians 1:15-17 (NASB)  15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.  16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. 17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
     The indifference to God's purpose is revealed in the opinion of the church concerning sin.  Humanism has been expressed rather than the driving desire to become like Jesus.  Scrptures are used to justify the very existence of the group as a church, but the interpretation is far from speaking His Word to a hungry soul, yearning to hear His Voice.  Being a social benefit to a community has its own worth, but the church that Jesus birthed with His great sacrifice, has a greater responsibility to become the Light to the world's darkness that Jesus revealed.  God is patient for us to open the door to His knocking.  Jesus stands at the door of our heart.  He wants entrance to our deepest motives, desires and goals.  He wants our full attention and focus.  He knows the pull of the world on your thoughts and desires and He stand outside of that divided desire.  Only when we let Him inside to fill our spirit, soul and mind, will we be able to dine with Him.  Only when our desire for Him rises to match His desire for us, will we know the intimacy of true communing with Him.