Psalm 82:3-4a

“… You’re here to defend the defenseless, to make sure that underdogs get a fair break;
Your job is to stand up for the powerless, …”

(The Message)

I saw Jars of Clay play in Auckland a few weeks back.

Their song Oh My God off their latest album is just amazing, here is a bootlegged live video and below is a user made video with lyrics, both are worth a watch.

The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

With this in mind I have to ask is the following quote poverty?

From now on, I am deemed poor… coz I have money I can’t touch…

Is having you can’t touch poor? I don’t think so. If you put up a barrier to money that you have that is your that is your problem. You are not poor. You are simply acting.

Say I was to have $10,000 and I decided to lock $9,900 away into a six month term deposit. I only have $100 left. Can I honestly claim that I am poor. NO. I am not poor I have simply decided to be stubborn with my money to try and claim some sympathy. It is Disgusting Behavior. NOT because you have money. But because that you have money and at the same time you are trying to claim that you don’t. It is deceitful and lying to say that you are poor.

Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Proverbs 30:8 NIV

Do you believe in second chances? third chances? fourth chances?

I was reading Jonah this morning for my not so daily devotional. And I have decided that I do.

We are made in the image of God, and if that is true, then we should reflect God. So if God believes in second chances then so do I.

Thinking this morning I realised that the bible is full of second chances.

Jonah for instance. He ran from God. But God gave him a second chance to achieve the same goal.

What about other characters?

How about Noah? God creates the world, and man destroys it, Gods sends a giant flood to give humans a second chance.

The Garden of Eden? Instead of destroying creation God gives us a second chance outside of the garden.

Adam? Adam sinned and doomed mankind. God sent Jesus to give us a second chance.

The Israelites how many times did they get exiled and always they got another chance to come back.

Sampson? David? How many more? I am sure there are many, many, many more.

Hebrews 13:18 NLT

Pray for us, for our conscience is clear and we want to live honorably in everything we do.

How can we have a clear conscience if we are not honest with one and other - in our actions, in our feelings, in how we live our life?

How do we live honorably in this world? What is right and what is wrong? Are the lines that blurred? Can there be light in the darkness? Does the light shine out of the darkness? Should there be light in the darkness or should the light be surrounded by other light to make the combined light stronger?

Saw this new video on C4 a few days ago. It is awesome.

This first video I saw at a Student Life (Campus Crusade for Christ) event.

These remaining videos are parodies of the Mac vs PC ads

People often try and use science to prove the existence of God. By using creation science or intelligent design theory these scientists try to prove God by using overwhelming statistical data. By doing this creation scientists believe that they can disprove other theories on the origin of humanity, specifically evolution.

Using science to prove God will not fully show who God is. Actually it will show very little of him. This is because if God created science then, despite what some people believe, God is not bound by science. To explain this in the context of everyday life take the example of a man building a shed. The man builds the shed, but the man is not bound inside the shed that he built.

So using this reasoning, in the beginning… God creates science and man creates a shed. Science shows God’s creation and the shed shows man’s creation. Science is an example of God’s creativity and the shed is an example of man’s creativity. However, the shed does not completely describe man’s creativity, let alone everything about the man. In the same way science does not completely describe God’s creativity, let alone everything about God.

You see in the same way the man and the shed are different, one being the direct result of the other, God and science are different. Science cannot completely describe God because God is more than just science. When we realise that God is not bound by human constraints we will begin to understand that God is the only logical explanation of how we can exist.