Where is god illustration

Where Is God? Related Content. One Road to God This dramatic illustration ponders the path to God. Awake O Sleeper We're prone to live a sleepy faith. Am I Enough?

How Do We Grow? Lost We were made to work. The Traveler Every week millions of Christians leave behind the principles that govern their home as they travel to what seems to be an alien world, governed by alien principles—their workplace. Regrets You'll Never Have Every moment you spend with your child helps build their character and influences who they are becoming. Not Alone School is a tough environment and teens often feel invisible and alone.

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Please visit your custom library to add channels. Add to Channel. Embed Code:. Add New Contacts [x]. Enter or paste email addresses from others in your church or organization spouse, group members, pastors, etc. Separate multiple emails addresses with a comma , or semicolon ; or put each email address on a separate line. ROLE :. His survival was iffy. He experienced a miraculous healing. He did not find out until later that this was the precise moment his father-in-law, who was a pastor, had his congregation start to pray for him.

Sometimes these stories come from not-very-credible sources—such as publications sold in grocery checkout lines that also carry news about extraterrestrial creatures secretly playing third base for the Boston Red Sox. His life was not only saved, but changed. Until then, although he taught at a seminary, God had been mostly an abstract idea to him. Now Jesus became a living Presence.

Pastor John Ortberg shares a story from his own life meeting a young kid while surfing:. A few weeks ago, when I was out surfing, there was no one else in the water. In fact, there was no one around at all, except a guy the size of Goliath doing tae kwon do on the beach. He pulled his little board right up next to mine. He was so small he hardly needed a board. He could have stood up in the ocean on a Frisbee. Anyway, he started chatting with me like we were old friends.

He told me his name was Shane. You meet a lot of nice people here. We talked a while longer. Then he turned around and waved at the nearly empty beach. The Goliath doing martial arts waved back. Then I knew why Shane was so at home in the ocean.

It was who was sitting on the beach. His father was always watching. And his father was very big. Neither are we. I am a Christian because of that moment on the cross when Jesus, drinking the very dregs of human bitterness, cries out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? The point is that he felt human destitution to its absolute degree; the point is that God is with us, not beyond us, in suffering. After a while, the demands of ministry began to increase, and Laubach was with people every moment of every waking day.

In that context, he wrote:. Either this new situation will crowd God out or I must take Him into it all. I must learn a continuous silent conversation of heart to heart with God while looking into other eyes and listening to other voices.

If I decide to do this it is far more difficult than the thing I was doing before. Yet if this experiment is to have any value for busy people it must be worked under exactly these conditions of high pressure and throngs of people. Several times during the day, but especially in the morning and evening, ask yourself for a moment if you have your soul in your hands or if some passion or fit of anxiety has robbed you of it….

If you have gone astray, quietly bring your soul back to the presence of God, subjecting all your affections and desires to the obedience and direction of His Divine Will. Lacking Presence. It is said that fourteenth-century philosopher and theologian Catherine of Siena once asked the Lord why he seemed so present to his people in the time of the Scriptures but seemed so absent in her own time.

In his excellent book on worship, The Dangerous Act of Worship , pastor and president of Fuller Seminary Mark Labberton shares a story of the transformation of one of his former congregants:. Ben was a very successful man. His professional life flourished.

His family life was challenging, as a parent of several teenagers. For him, Christian faith was a distant and disconnected reality. But he began to have conversations about it with his wife and later with me. One Sunday I was surprised but pleased to see him in the worship service.

As he approached me at the door afterward, his eyes began to fill with tears. He explained that while visiting Washington, D. C, for a professional conference, he had gone to visit the National Cathedral. He slipped into an empty side chapel and sat down for some quiet time and reflection. Ben became a new person. The awe and wonder of grace and truth beyond his own mind, his own questions, his own needs, simply met him and changed him.

In a way it seemed as though I was starting my life all over again. Stuart Strachan Jr. When they sat down across from my wife and me, they had a dream to start a coffee shop that would serve as a place of refreshment and restoration. They wanted the planet, their employees, and all those who are a part of their supply chain, from producer to customer, to be better off because of their business. It now exists for the flourishing of all, as God intended.

But that is just one of the possibilities when two people fall in love with Jesus and choose the vision of the kingdom of God over the one offered by America. The Kingdom of God is a Public Park. What is the Kingdom of God, according to the prophet Zechariah Zech. It is a public park! It is a park where old people are no longer cold and lonely and ill and senile, but participants in a community. It is a public park where the elderly can sit together and bask in the sun, and talk laugh over the good old days in full vigor and clear mind and satisfaction of life.

The Kingdom of God is a public park where little children can run and play in its squares, in safety and fun and delight…. It is a place where no child is abused or unwanted or malnourished, and where there is not even a bully among the group, shoving and taunting the littler ones until they break into tears.

The Kingdom of God, says Zechariah, is a public park where the streets are safe for children. James W. Cox and Kenneth M. In his excellent book, An Unhurried Life , Alan Fadling contrasts our overly busy lives with a vision of the kingdom from Isaiah chapter He envisioned a kingdom where we would experience favor, comfort, blessing, honor, new perspectives and deepening roots that enable us to do the rebuilding, restoring, renewing work in places, structures and persons who have long been ruined Is These characteristics of oaks of righteousness are the fruit of apprenticeship.

Further, we, as these oaks of righteousness planted by the Lord, put his splendor on display, a display quite different from human excitement, enthusiasm and thrills. Splendor is quieter, stronger, less hurried and more deeply rooted. Oaks take a long time to grow. A newly planted acorn can take between two and three decades to provide significant shade, and these slow-growing oaks can live more than two hundred years.

One reason for their longevity is the taproot they send deep into the earth that makes them very drought-resistant. Oaks are indeed solid, stable, reliable, majestic trees—but it takes them a while to get there. Do we take that same long view of growing in Christ ourselves and helping others do the same? If so, what can we do to help others become attentive and teachable apprentices to him so that one day they will shine with his splendor and flourish in the fruit of his Spirit?

Whatever it is that we do, I believe it will require a less hurried, longer perspective approach than we have commonly taken. It refers to the rule of heaven, that is, of God, being brought to bear in the present world.

Thy kingdom come, said Jesus, thy will be done, on earth as in heaven. The question was, how, when and through whom? Wright Copyright c by N.

We come forward with a Huge Life Decision and we long for answers and direction. We pray and ask for advice and still, nothing rises to the surface as the right direction to go. And when you have a big decision to make, you need all the love and support you can possibly get.

The only place I know to find that for sure is in the presence of Jesus. Emily P. Freeman, The Next Right Thing, , p. The Treasure of a Lifetime. A first-century Hebrew walks alone on a hot afternoon, staff in hand. His shoulders are stooped, his tunic stained with sweat. He has pressing business in the city. He veers off the road into a field, seeking a shortcut. The field is uneven. To keep his balance he thrusts his staff into the dirt. The staff strikes something hard.