The Anti-Narnia...

I was reading on Snopes about the movie "The Golden Compass", that Nicole Kidman is in and is coming out at Christmas. It looked like a good movie from the previews, but evidently in the Trilogy, the kids - in the end - kill God.

The Golden Compass is, the anti-narnia...

The 119

"How can a young man keep his way pure?
By living according to your word.
I seek you with all my heart;
do not let me stray from your commands."

All for King Jesus...

Last night Jenni and I were looking at the stars and talking about God's promise to Abraham. Rich Mullins always said that one of those stars was lit just for us. We talked about God's promise to Abraham, that through him many nations would come.

This morning I started thinking how that promise really did not come about through Abraham, nor through Isaac, but it came through Jacob. Each of them was promised that the covenant made with Abraham would be fulfilled in them.

We do not hear this type of covenant again from God until David comes onto the scene and then it is promised again a very similar type thing, that his kingdom shall pass down and never be removed.

God has been playing this game of chess with the end game in mind all along. The entirety of Israel's history was deliberate strategy on the part of God to bring the messiah Jesus into the world to deliver mankind from the bondage of sin. Understanding this we can see why it was Jacob's direct lineage and not Isaac or Abraham's (both had sons that were not part of the fullfillment of God's promise - Abe had Ishmael, Isaac had Esau but all of Jacob's children became the nation of Israel) was the lineage through whom God choose to bring forth the nation of Israel. David was chosen because the DNA he carried was the DNA of the savior.

It makes me wonder how God is directing the flow of humanity in our world in order for Christ to return again.

More from "In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day"

Talking about Gordon MacKenzie's book orbiting the Giant Hairball and a section on workshops he led in elementary schools.:
"MacKenzie would ask the kids upfront: 'How many artists are there in the room?' And he said the pattern of responses never varied.
In the first grade, the entire class waved their arms like maniacs. Every child was an artist. In the second grade, about half the kids raised their hands. In the third grade, he'd get about ten out of thirty kids. And by the time he got to sixth grade, only one or two kids would tentatively and self-consciously raise their hands."

Matthew 18:3
"And he said: 'I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.'"

Will and Working out...

Boy howdy. Today, I got to the YMCA fine, but it was a struggle to get through every minute. I kept saying, "You can do 20 minutes" and then I would get there and say, "well, it's only 10 more minutes to 30" and so on till I did my 40 minutes. The second week is definitely harder, but I am excited about it. It feels good to work out, I can already feel my legs getting blood back to them. Now I just need the will power and the self discipline. That is what I have been praying for from God! Well, that's all for today...

I wonder...

I was thinking this morning about regret. I wonder if we regret more the things we do in life that are failures or the things we never did and wish we would have. I think of all of the students who have graduated from High School under me, and how many of them say, "I wish I would have taken the time to share Jesus with people." None of them say, I wish I wouldn't have gone to that party, although they probably wish they hadn't - what sticks out to them are the things they could have done for God, but were afraid to.