The Meandering Mind of a Christian Woman

                1 Corinthians 1:25 “For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.”                 This verse has been on my mind a lot lately. I have been trying to figure out just what the foolishness of God might be. The only thing I can come up with was his foolishness in creating man. (Please note: man = all humankind) Think about it; man has goofed up everything since the Garden of Eden. Man is the reason God provided a Savior. Yet, he states that His foolishness is wiser than man’s wisdom.                 So what is man’s wisdom? If we follow the leading of the world, wisdom is getting ahead, having money, having possessions, looking good by the world’s standards and an assortment of o...

                We all ponder the same question at some point in life; “What is my purpose here?” I myself have wrestled with this question and recently a thought occurred to me as my brother was asking the question. I have always thought of life purpose as singular thing and I now realize that thought is all wrong. We do not have a singular purpose; we live lives of purpose daily. We have a million purposes!                 Think about this, an average life span is about 80 years, 365 days a year gives us close to 30,000 days. Each day we encounter multiple activities, happenstances, interactions and so on. Even the mundane things of life have purpose, from brushing our teeth to fixing dinner to tucking our children into bed; it all serves purpose. I will grant you, it is not always thrilling purpose. I will even go so far as to sa...

                I believe that there is confusion in the world today about the fact there is a difference between opinion and judgement.   Stating one’s opinion these days can put one in hot water pretty fast. There are also a great many people who are quick to take offense where none was intended.   Before we jump to conclusions as to who in our lives these statements apply to, we must consider how they apply to us.   It does feel as though Christianity is under attack; we are the culture de jour of contempt. This is not new; Christianity has been under attack since its inception.   It has been an ongoing battle that we have taken for granted in America. Citizens of Asian and Arab nations have had to fight and sacrifice everything to claim the love of Christ.                 We claim the love of Christ but do we...

                This morning the sermon text spoke of the glory of God and how unimaginable it must be.   The verse that truly struck me was Isaiah 6:5, Isaiah is exposed to God’s glory and his words and actions display such humility and reverence; “ Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty . ”   In today’s world of selfies and doing what we can to get noticed, it is so hard to fathom that when we see someone of notoriety we might shrink into a corner humbly.                 Then we must consider the humility of Christ, to leave such glory and become a man was already humiliation but to follow that up with a common lifestyle and a ministry and death fraught with humiliation! So, I began to form a word pic...

            Decisions; what is your guide to making a decision? I want very much to follow God’s will for me. Somethings are quite obvious and fit easily for me, others, not so much. It isn’t that something is “wrong” in fact it is quite the opposite but that doesn’t automatically indicate that it is right for me. It would be so sweet if God would send me a distinct message that said; I choose you for this role.             I begin to think of all the sayings and scriptures that apply, such as; God does not call the equipped. he equips the called. I also remember all the characters of biblical history that carried out God’s will: Abraham, left his home to go to the place God would show him, a very comfortable home too. Gideon, the least of the least, wiping out an army; Moses, a basket case with a speech impediment, leading the children of Israel; David, a shepherd boy a...