One of the hardest things of life is to get momentum, to get an object that is at rest into motion and hopefully into the desired direction that you wish it to go. Today we get to meet with the children of Derry head on and hopefully to get them to consider the Love that God has for them. This task will be difficult in that the vast majority of the team is tired and unsure, anyone of these two would be enough to scuttle the best programs but the two combined could make for an insurmountable task. Paul said it best when he said "But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me." 2 Corinthians 12:9 Wow! boasting about weakness if ever there was thought that is foreign to man's thinking today it would be boasting about our inadequacies, we find it easy to boast to others about the things that set us apart things that make us special but boasting about weaknesses and our short comings is not part of societal acceptance. This lack of objectivity comes from the idea that we should never admit that we are less than whole, less than capable, less than pretty, less than smart, less than the ideal existence that society has placed firmly on our shoulders, a weight that often crushes and stifles us in to a shell of the creation that God meant us to be.
However, all hope is not lost in that the very thing that keep us from getting momentum in life (embracing who we are and how we have been crafted by God's hand) it is the very thing that will open the doors of out self-made prisons and allow us that freedom that we were all meant experience in all of its liberating glory. In this confession of limitation we admit our need for the God and his provision for our lives in this fallen world. Yes, it also important to admit that the world we live in is broken and doesn't come close to resembling the world that was once created by God and in this mire and mess is where God does His best work. So as we set off today to pray that we all remember that we'll do our best work when it is He who is the Wind in our sail: the Spring in our step and the Joy in our lives, when this happens mountains are moved and walls are broken down. So as strange as it sounds pray mightily that we would become weaklings.
May All your Heart Beats Be Irish
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Worship at Church
The Church
Pastor Brian
Ryan Leonard PT Instructor for Royal Irish Regiment
leading us in PT
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