Pastor’s Post

“Gods got This”

   In jest, I’ve been told I am an inpatient person. In seriousness, I have to admit that it’s true. I struggle to be patient…which is why I proposed to my wife 22 years ago without a job, a ring, or a future. (Thankfully that turned out well for her…and me) My lack of patience isn’t limited to myself, or people I come into contact with; It extends even to God. I know God is capable of getting things done yesterday…and I struggle with waiting for his timing that always seems to be tomorrow.

   In my walk around the sanctuary some time ago, Ps. 46:10 came to mind which states “Be still, and know that I am God.” I know God is God, but what does it really mean to “be still and know that He is God”?

  To start with, Psalm 46 is a song about how no matter what is going on around, whether it’s a natural catastrophe or a physical attack on a nation, “Gods got this” (Josh’s loose paraphrase). Because “Gods got this”, the reader should choose to ‘Be still and know that I (God is) am God”.

   Per the Barnes commentary, to Be still means properly to cast down; to let fall; to let hang down; then, to be relaxed, slackened, especially the hands. This isn’t giving an excuse to sit back and do nothing in life, or avoid helping oneself, but rather surrendering ones will, and acknowledging that God is in control. Stop trying to fight and figure out everything on my own, but rather go to, and trust God for help in it.

Know: means to “acknowledge, to be aware.”

I am God: There is only one God. God is God. Nothing happens outside of Gods control or without God’s permissions. God is:

            Omnipotent: All Powerful

            Omnipresent: Everywhere present

            Omniscient: All knowing

  If the reader is told to “Be still and know that I am God” when those disasters are going on (natural or manmade) than of course this should apply to whatever we are facing in our world as a whole, and our individual lives as well.

  I will admit, there is a struggle to do this. God and I don’t see eye to eye or seem to have the same timeline in mind. I want things to happen sooner (or at all), and He doesn’t seem to agree with it. In reality, only one of has need of cooperating with the other, (me with God) …not the other way around. When all is said and done, I have to stop and remind myself that “Gods got this”. Whatever issue I am dealing with, whether in trying to get something accomplished around the church, a family situation, or whatever else in life that I can be dealing with, I have to remember that I don’t have control of the outcome. I can do what I can do, but ultimately God is going to do what God is going to do.

                                                                                                            “Gods got this”,

                                                                                                                        Pastor Josh

4. Partaking of bread together (They ate together, but also celebrated the Lord’s supper together)

5. Passing it along to non-believers (Though not specifically stated in this passage, I think it can be easily assumed they verbally shared what was happening to the unbelievers around them.

    These “old fashioned” ideas or practices could easily become the “new fashioned” as far as church goes.

Praying for the “new old-fashioned church”

                                                                                                                        ~Pastor Josh    I love to give out this book. I have a used book or two on my shelf if you want a free copy. If you aren’t willing to admit you are a “blockhead” like I am, (My name is Josh and I am a blockhead, and yes, I read my own copy) you can typically find a cheap used copy on thriftbooks.com, or a brand new one at christianbook.com.

                                                                                                Blessings to my fellow Blockheads,

                                                                                                            Pastor Joshhow each one worked while their master was gone. Two of these servants did the best they could with what they had. Though not being equal in the amount of what they were able to accomplish, I believe both lived up to the max potential they were capable of. The third servant chose to do nothing with what he was entrusted with, and chose instead to make excuses for why he did nothing. Jesus informed the listeners, that these servants were rewarded for the spiritual investment they made.

   If you are saved, your ultimate salvation is coming. It’s “closer today than when you first believed.” How are you living your faith out? Are you making a “spiritual investment” like two of the three of these servants were? Or are you making excuses for why you can’t do what God is asking you to do?

                                                                                         “Live like Jesus could come back today”.

                                                                                                                        ~Pastor Josh