My thoughts exactly

Okay so in class we went over how a soundboard is operated and its function. Now that that boring part is out of the way let me get to something far more interesting.

Let me highlight on a few things about the status of my week. It has been a lazy week for me. That has its good parts and bad. I've been reading every so often in my spare time. I believe that reading is great and that we need to consistently be inspired by books, or movies, or art, or anything that is beautiful. I loved getting inspired. I see the beauty of God speaking through so many of these things. For example it is raining now and as much as I personally hate the rain, it is God giving us life through it. Things get greener, and life is breathed through the rain. So I will sit on my back porch and thank God for giving us life and the rain. 

One of the books that I am thoroughly enjoying is called The Wild Goose Chase by Mark Batterson. The Wild Goose comes from an ancient Celtic word An Geadh-Glas. This is the same word that the Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit. It sounds sacrilegious calling the Holy Spirit a wild goose, but it kinda makes sense. Its dangerous and unpredictable, it has a mystery an a sense of uncertainty.  This is what chasing the Holy Spirit is. It's not so much as us following the Holy Spirit we need to be chasing Him. That is a real wild goose chase.
         

The Sea of Galilee

 Something I really took away from this book is that God will challenge our assumptions. We try to prove everything and assume we understand what God is doing, or what the world is doing. We can't. God wasn't created in our image was he? No, we were created in His image. We can't fully understand what His plans are. How about I throw a good story in here. A leading oceanographer says in the last few millenniums their has been weird atmospheric phenomenons causing the Sea of Galilee to form floating ice chunks. This may happen once every thousand years. This is how he believes that Jesus walked on water. I believe that Jesus waled on water because that is what the bible says happened. Also I think it would be equally impressive to see Jesus surfing on an ice chink in the storm. This is just one way we try to understand God. God is omniscient. We must not try to put an understanding on who He is. We can't prove everything. Sometimes the only way to prove something is to deem it a miracle.

I'm sure I will give you another great book review possibly in another post. I don't just read one book at a time. There is several.

Be inspired and look for God in everything. He is there.

Matt Brown