Blessings, The Second Law of Thermodynamics and an Uneasy Peace
Sunday 27 July 2008 at 08:14 am Blessings:What a blessing me and the MR summer staff received from the last team. They really loved on us at a time that we needed it. Sometimes Mission Teams don’t seem to get that while this is their one week here, and we praise God for them, that it may be our fourth or sixth or even eighth week here. This past team did a great job of just loving my staff as they loved our Kids. They did not complain or fuss or ignore them, instead they embraced them. They did not look down on them instead they used them as the resource they have the ability to be. The encouragement has given us the strength to face the final week coming up.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics:
The Second Law (Law of Energy Decay) states that every system left to its own devices always tends to move from order to disorder, its energy tending to be transformed into lower levels of availability, finally reaching the state of complete randomness and unavailability for further work. -- Scientific Creationism, edited by Henry Morris (p.25)
Wow I may be living proof of the second law of Thermodynamics right now especially, finally reaching the state of complete randomness and unavailability for further work. This week is going to be a challenge for me and I covet your prayers. I past Burned Out sometime last week. When asked what do I do when I am burned out I always reply, “I serve burned out.” I can not find anywhere in scripture where saying we are burned out is an excuse to stop serving. My favorite verse dealing with being burned out is: We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. -- 2 Corinthians 4: 8 – 9. I am tired of whinny Christians who quit every time things get hard. Suck it up and Serve was our rallying cry a few years ago.
An Uneasy Peace:
It may sound like a contradiction but God has given me an uneasy peace. I realize that I am going to have to shut down mission points at the end of summer. I hate shutting down Mission Points; I usually have to cry myself to sleep when I do. I have a peace that can only come from God that I can not keep living my life spread so thin. I do not have peace that people of God can be content with letting me shut down sites. How can the Church just turn their back on the Lost. I don’t know much but I know when God speaks! So I have a peace that can only come from obedience. I will do what God has told be to do but I don’t like it. I will scale back the work in Walnut Terrace and the Oaks but I will not shut them down I will not give up on them. I will continue to beg God to shake up the believers in Raleigh. I will shut down Valleybrook and I can not reopen Terrace Park or Stonecrest and I can not start Dover or Mayview.
I may shut down but I will not shut up! I will continue being God’s advocate for reaching these mission fields!
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