I’ve done it again. Many days of good teaching/ideas/suggestions but no time to write. I’ll just touch on a couple…
Our moods can go up and down. I know we were created by God but some have extra sensitivities. We refer to those, as children, as being moody or hyperactive while they are just being themselves. Please allow for pouting and extra energy as it is not a sin. I remember a foster child years ago when I was a teen leading a kids church program. I asked Tommy for the umpteenth time to sit down. His eyes pleaded with me as he spoke these works – “I can’t”. That early experience made me a better teacher and I never asked him to hold still again. He was doing his best. A blue day simply means to take a pause and do some sorting and maybe some self-care. I’ll add, drink plenty of water because that is something I attempt but don’t succeed at. Physiology is how we function at the cellular level including those things like blood-pressure, hormones, glucose levels, etc. If something is off see a doctor and then regulate food and liquid intake as we are what we eat. All of this body stuff is just taking care of our tent (body). Pastor Jeff was teaching on Second Peter Chapter one today about living in the knowledge that we are not promised tomorrow. If there are ‘things’ to straiten out, please get off the internet and call that estranged friend if it is safe to do so. Take care of business. Our tents have secret expiration dates. Our tents are becoming unreliable and we don’t know when we may be taking our tents down for the last time. The dash between our birth and death is visibly short…
Has God ever had a booboo? Some call it an owie. We are made in the image of God but He is perfect. We suffer. Jesus suffered. Jesus was perfect but pain was inflicted on Him. He is one in the Trinity. Jesus is the effulgence of God – His radiant splendor not created but of the same ‘stuff’. There is no victim mentality in Jesus. I can’t imagine the heart of God not hurting when Jesus, who knew no sin, became our sin. That must have hurt.