Our pastor at church just started a new sermon
series about the many names of God. He
has been at our church for about six months now but already I like his
style. He doesn’t use any notes. This impresses me because I have a tendency
to forget what I am going to say mid-sentence.
I will start to say something and get distracted and never finish. By the time my husband asks me what I was
going to say it is gone. Obviously it
wasn’t as important as sharing God’s word but I still have a fear of public
speaking. Or maybe it is more of a fear
of being looked at. All those eyes
looking at me, waiting for what I would say, it freaks me out.
Anyway, I like that our pastor doesn’t use notes but
I also like that he breaks things down so I can understand it. Sometimes the message hits me like a wrecking
ball. I stop and I’m like, “Wow, how
amazing is that?” I have never been good
at math or science. They aren’t my
subjects. My husband is very good at
math and science and history. I prefer
English and literature and creative type subjects. We are opposites and yet we complement each
other. I bring this up because Sunday the
pastor used some Chemistry to get his point across.
Protons, neutron, electrons, atoms, positive
charges, negative charges all things that I vaguely remember from school and
you can be sure I haven’t thought about since.
I did remember that positive and negative charges like each other and I
do know enough to know that everything is made of atoms. I will tell you that I snuck glances at my
scientific husband every now and then to see how it was going. Normally I would have to ask for the
breakdown from him afterward but I followed well…I think. Protons and neutrons are at the center of a nucleus. Protons are positively charged and neutrons
have no charge so what keeps them there?
It is a mystery until you realize just what it is that holds everything
together. Jesus.
Have you ever had things just fall apart? Have you ever just been broken? Have you ever had a hard time just holding it
all together? I have. Jesus holds the entire earth and everything in
it together. He holds them in the palm of his hand. The same hands that took the nails when He
died on the cross to save you are the ones that hold everything together. He can hold you together too.
It was a powerful message as I said before. I like the messages that shake you up the best. Thing I hadn’t really considered really came
together and when they did I was awed. I was awed by the wonder of a powerful God. How amazing is it that we have a God that we
can come to and just fall apart? A God
that we can take our burdens to and lay them at His feet and know that He will
handle it is a powerful thing.
What are
you searching for? What are you
missing? Can I suggest that it may be
the same thing that I searched for in all the wrong places? You can search your entire life on earth for
someone or something to make you complete but you will always come up
lacking. We are designed and made to
make connection with God. He is the only
one who can complete you and make you whole.
What a relief it is when you finally do.
Protons, Neutrons, Electrons, You, Me, The Earth,
The Moon, and everything in between God made them all and holds them all
together. Let Him hold you together too.
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