Life Update

Life

One thing I know. I was blind but now I see.

I like this guy’s response to the Pharisees (in John chapter 9) so much. They kept badgering him about why and how he got healed from being blind from birth, about how he should never have been healed on the Sabbath, and how his blindness came from being born in sin, and all kinds of annoying, religious, Pharisaical type things.

But he didn’t succomb to all their irritating religious pressure. He didn’t try to come up with a logical explanation for why he was healed. He didn’t even try to come up with a theological explanation for how he could be healed if he had been “steeped in sin from birth”. He shrugged all of that off and was just thankful and overjoyed by the miracle that God had done in his life.

And when Jesus came to him later and he realized that Jesus was the Son of Man, he believed.

I want to be like that. I don’t want to come under religion and Phariseeism and try to come up with logical, rational and theological explanations for why God does the things He does. He is God. And like Jesus said about this guy just before He healed him, “This happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.”

Whatever God is doing in my life, from the “mundane” to the “miracle”, He is doing it that it might display His glory.

Family

As recorded in the post below, we each had a 3 hour interview where we discussed at length our background, childhood, families, marriage, faith and future. I enjoyed it. I had nothing to hide or be ashamed of, and everything that has happened in my life and will happen in my life is (as described above) a way for God to display His glory. So I had an attentive social worker whose job was to listen to me witness in an indirect way for 3 straight hours, so I thought it was very cool. We are praying that God would use this entire adoption process in whatever way He wants to, and in so many ways He has already done just that!

Ministry

Yesterday at church it was the first time in a while that I didn’t have to stand at the computer during worship to put up the songs, and I didn’t have to teach Sunday School either. So it was like I didn’t have to “serve” or “minister” in any way.

But during worship time, which was wonderful and much-needed, I realized quite clearly how I was “serving” and “ministering” in the most important way I ever could: my ministry was to Jesus during those 30 minutes of worship. And that was the most important ministry of all. Far more important and of far higher priority than standing at the computer or teaching Sunday School. My main ministry is to Him, to give Him my heart and to stand before His throne and minister to Him. He is worth it.

Schooling

Myocardial infarction (heart attacks). I have always had trouble studying the heart (in my seventh grade biology class I got my first D on anything ever – a quiz on the chambers of the heart – blecch).

This is quite a bit more advanced than the chambers of the heart, but is more focused on molecular aspects like which pharmaceuticals can prevent or treat atherosclerosis, etc.

Intriguing!