Weakness

This seems to happen a lot, huh? I write one post and then it is three plus months until the next. Sorry about that.

Last time, I tried to do a series on Hebrews 11:1, my favorite verse, and we got through maybe half of it! God truly is amazing to be able to put so much meaning into a sentence that we can study it repeatedly and still get so much out of it. Well, I think we are going to hold the Faith series to continue at another time; I have a new series!

This summer has really been a sad one for my spiritual life. The reason I haven't written in so long is because I have been so spiritually starved that it should be considered anorexic. Until today, I haven't been to church since EASTER! Why? Transitional malcontent. I've been moving quite a bit, and it hasn't made sense to me to get comfortable in a church. To be honest, I have somehow developed a bad taste in my mouth for some churches. There is something missing, but I don't know what. It doesn't help that I work two Sundays a month, makes being regular a little difficult. So, my independent nature started to take over, thinking that I could lead my own Christian life for the time being...See anything wrong with that statement?

Now that I am settled in my new home, I've started to re-evaluated where I have and haven't been with God. I began praying and making a list of what I am really seeking in a church and what kind of a church God would like for me to be in. Let's just say that I really think that He answered those prayers today.

I have also been more interactive in my quiet time. At the beginning of the month, I was drawn to the story of Jesus' temptation. There has been only one sermon that I have heard on this text, and after studying it, I wonder why. Why do we seem to passively read the temptation of our Lord? The reason I did was because of it apparent obviousness: Jesus is perfect, and we should always go to scripture when we are tempted. Pretty basic stuff, right?

Well, of course I am going to disagree with the initial glance. It has taken me about two weeks to get through just 13 verses, and I learned more about Jesus as a person than I ever have through any other story by this point. We love to talk about His wisdom and miraculous acts, but this is a story depicting Him as a human just about to face the cruel world with the Gosple. It is a story about His weaknesses...

I am going to stop here, so you can take some time and read the story yourself. The version I use was Luke 4:1-13. I promise, I will continue on Wednesday. May God reveal as much to you as He did to me.