Potpourri means an assortment. It is an assortment of dried petals and spices but I’m looking for a way to give you some thoughts to take over and chew on. God’s Word is constantly inspiring. It is solid truth but seems to morph as we grow. (I don’t know if believers in Jesus can shrink but the world is a big distraction for certain.)
Kabod is the Hebrew word for weight and refers to the weight of God’s glory. Glory is one of the “other”-worldly terms I cannot understand on this side. We know we need to respond to the “weight” and worship is the first step.
Quantum physics is not a normal topic of conversation. It studies matter and energy, including how particles interact to make the world. In finishing a recent book on autism, the author, who believes in God and has been fascinated by stories written by people who have died and returned with stories, has begun questioning if those stories are true or the result of particles colliding. I don’t know how any of that works but I was walking past a market on a recent warm day. People dress differently in the heat. I wish I was still comfortable in shorts and a tank but some of those days are gone, however, a younger, athletic-looking person was talking loudly on her phone. I could not have been more surprised by what she said…”The same energy that holds the cosmos…”. Two observations: 1) if the devil can cause people to question the existence of God with quantum physics – we are to be most pitied, and 2) I don’t know exactly what happens after death but people are talking about it and I trust God has it covered because He is more than an ordering force. Einstein wrote the the scientist’s “religious feeling takes the form of rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that compared with it, all systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.” He also referred to this world as a great eternal riddled and that science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind.
Asimov is another famous scientist. Isaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was born in Russia and I was born in California but we both loved the study of the cell and the atom. In biology the unit is always the cell and in chemistry, the atom. I studied biochemistry at UCLA because I wanted to teach something interesting. Knowing how God built this world and His people was exciting. Asimov died in 1992. His obituary contained the statement that death was not much of an issue because all his thoughts would live on in books. Libraries and the internet extend our influence but only Jesus can provide eternity.
Teach your children. I know many people who have been hands off in the faith department. They feel uncertain so reason that they are confused so let their children figure out truth. How does that even make sense? God is not a magnet and that only certain people have iron in them. God has called His creation to return to Him. There are not MANY ways because then God sounds confused. He planned to redeem the world by sending His only begotten Son. It is true that sending your kids to church as a formality, rather than a relationship, is to your credit, but…you teach your children to brush their teeth. Make the practice of prayer and seeking God a priority. You want them to be good sports-people so give them reasons to be fair. Religious obsession isn’t good either. Just the truth. Train your children.
