I was just reflecting on the last couple of weeks today, and I realized that ever since the experience at THOP I have been feeling so joyful. I have not been feeling down or depressed at all. I know that God has been and still is making major changes inside of me. I can feel myself getting stronger in my body, spirit and soul. And I am so ready to push so hard through the rest of the DTS and then go even harder on outreach. A particular outreach is really on my heart and I am going to be majorly praying over this for the next while. I am so excited.
Today was a good day. We had Papa Tups talk about God's Power. He basically just prayed over everyone. It was neat, Marit and Tasia were laughing hysterically the whole time. Ever since THOP Marit has just been filled with joy - overflow from what I got maybe!? Today she even referred to herself as Joy. I love her.
We are all getting excited for the weekend off which is not this coming weekend, but the next one. Some plans have been flying around. It seems like we will all be sticking together and heading up to the Narnia beach Friday night, camping overnight and hanging there for the day, and then hitting up the hot water beach on Sunday. We are all getting excited!
Today I was supposed to finish my CIR and my Book Report. I finished my CIR, but I didn't have time to finish the book report because I am on dinner prep this week which takes 2 hours from my afternoon in which I was planning on writing. But it's OK, I'll hand it in tomorrow. I also made a pretty sweet title page for my book review. I'm excited for it.
In my CIR I chose to do my Character study on God as destructor. This trait really popped out at me this week. I think that it is because Dave talked a lot about Calamity. He asked some pretty sweet questions, like, since there are so many problems in the world, why doesn't God just fix them? And why does God allow bad things happen to good people?
There are no straight-forward answers. But what we can conclude from scripture is that God is slow to anger. He does not just jump right in and fix things at the first sign of trouble. He does not just execute people at their first sign of misbehavior. He gives us many chances. He is perfect in everything he does, so he executes judgement perfectly.
We also know that God can change his actions based on people's decisions. (ie. Jonah 3:10 and Exodus 32:10-12,14) God was very upset with the people, and was planning on punishing them, until they asked for forgiveness and he changed their mind.
Natural disasters often bring up the questions of whether it was an act of Judgement by God. Regardless of whether it is or not, if we humble ourselves in response to a catastrophe, God will respond with compassion.
So, God is a destructor. He does use destruction to get our attention, test our faithfulness, or to stop us from going down a wrong life path. But if we are faithful and walk closely with him, he will not have reason to send destruction down on us. During the Great Flood, God flooded the Earth because it was filled with sin, and he saved the one righteous man (Noah) and his family. God rewards the faithful.
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