Soup - Spock - Jesus and the Gospel


This morning I got out of bed and pretty immediately started making soup.  You see Jim and I have been invited to a Halloween party - but we're also planning to go to church and I knew that if I wanted to bring soup to the party (which is what I'd been asked to do), I had better get started.

Then, after the soup was made, and the kitchen was cleaned up - I sat down in my little blue recliner with my blanket and my coffee and decided to begin my day in earnest.  But then Jim called from the office saying, "You know, this is the first time in a long time you haven't posted in your blog"

Poop!

In the frantic rhythm of the morning - I had neglected to do it.  And unlike some days, I didn't have a post prepared, nor had God event prompted me to think about something.  

And in that moment - my thought was, "who really reads it anyway?"

But then Spock (yep that pointy-eared guy from Star Trek) came to mind...

Most notably, the time in the movie where he put himself in a perilous situation and said, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one".  As I thought about Spock in that moment, I decided he was a lot like Jesus.  You see Jesus wasn't particularly excited about the prospect of being beaten and crucified.  In fact in Luke 22:44 the Bible says, "And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground."  But He did it anyway because "the needs of the many outweighed the needs of the one."

Now I'm not saying I'm like Jesus - or even Spock... but I guess what I AM saying is that if even just ONE person is reading this daily blog and getting something out of it - it is something I need to continue...

In Mark 16:15 after He had risen from the dead, Jesus told his remaining disciples, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation."

And that's what this is here - a daily effort to preach the gospel...to tell or remind people of the goodness of God, and of the death Jesus died so that we could be forgiven of our sins. It is my daily attempt to speak of our redemption, and the relationship God wants to form with us.

I have said before that God has a purpose for each of our lives, and the trick is to find out what that is  - and to do it.  Sometimes that may mean He wants you to be engaging with a multitude of people, or more often maybe it is just ONE - but whatever it is, I urge you to listen to that "still small voice," and to HEAR what He'd like you to do for Him.

Perhaps later God will call me to do something else, but for now -  I know with all my heart that THIS little daily blog is what He's asking of me.

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