It seems pointless to start out this lesson asking if you ever have those times where you think that you have power over Christ. You know, those times where we jump ahead of ourselves in the matter that we can no longer see the hands stretched out wide which made it all. And no, it’s not reasonable to slink back in our sins because we figure we are going to do it anyways. The very matter that I hope to show you and then pick it apart is the matter of speed racing. Sounds weird right? And to be honest I am not quite sure where or how this lesson is to play out but my inspiration comes from the video which you can watch at the end of the lesson below…so let’s dive in.
One of the main things that are eating away at my frustration right now is that I have the hardest time thinking of something to talk about for the daily lesson on this very blog. I sometimes look at all the work I have with school and college and life and work to think, that I can’t just throw something on the blog and call it the lesson of the week. It is a real struggle and its taxing considering I hope to continue my writing career into so much more. I get so caught up in this and everything going on in my life that it gets to the point where I actually never do any of what I say I need to do. And it is no until I hit total rock bottom that I pull myself backwards to take a look at the big picture.
You know those simplistic things you learn in your elementary Sunday school classes. The little work books or story boards made from fabric that depict the times of Jesus on earth. I mean, of course those Sunday school teachers do not go a whole lot into the depth of religion verses having a relationship with Christ for it is rather shown a couple years later. But how many times have you reverted back to the work books when you have a spiritual roadblock? Sure our teachings are built on what we were first taught from the very beginning. It is just like the ideal that we do not wake up every day to practice writing our alphabet because we know it and we can write sentences and essays and novels or even dictionaries! But when we are unable to think of words to say or can’t convey our beliefs right, which is when we run around wandering where we can find the answer. Do you think we would ever step back and think the answer is in the beginning. In order to understand the hard stuff we have to start at the beginning.
In all of your years of reading the bible, how many times have you stop your devotion deep into the bible’s pages to read the very first sentence? You know, maybe the biggest punch is all in the first line. The very answer to all of our prayers.
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” ~Genesis 1:1
That’s it! One sentence that may seem so simple to people that they completely skip over it. Because why would you bother reading that when the bulk of it is between the beginning and the end? You can always skip to the end to hear…
“May the grace of the Lord Jesus be with God’s holy people.” ~Revelation 22:21
That sentence says it all but the middle is where it is all at. It has all of the stories, all of the testimonies, all the pain, but yet all of the hope. You are now saying…”Okay, you just said the first sentence has all the punch. Get it straight.” You are right, I actually confused myself until I realized how my understanding would be if I never saw or read Genesis. Of course I would not understand the foundation upon which Christ came but the rest of the book would not fit because those details and the rest are meant to fit like a puzzle.
So maybe it’s the very beginning. The creation. The love of Christ. The cross. Our sin. The blood He gave us. Maybe that alone is what calms our very storms. Maybe we are the pitcher that keeps our eyes on the hitter and target the whole time before the pitch. Until we have that one second where we turn our heads to release the pitch to then see what we were truly focusing on.
So what if it takes us taking a thousand steps backwards to see who the true conductor is. Take yourself and sit down to think, nothing else. Do not feel or look for things around but straight back to creation and the very first move. His first action only requires this straight focus for he will move your desires to the fit place. For if we cannot look back to the very beginning then how can we jump in feet first?
His Words: “In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
~Acts 20:35
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