The Works of God

My light reading for vacation this year was Graduate Theological Education and the Human Experience of Disability.  I’m not kidding – it really was light.  I’ll be blogging about that later.

By contrast, I just read a post on Sue Hume’s Hope for Special Moms blog where she has a guest blogger, Lisa Jamieson, who quotes the Bible and believes that the words God gave us actually mean something (that will give you a taste for what I think about the book referenced above).

I realize I’m in ‘fight’ mode when I read a sentence and want to immediately argue some point – which happened as I read Lisa Jamieson’s post.  

But then I see scripture, and see it dealt with fairly and with confidence that this God and this Jesus really are to be treasured above all earthly things.  That sin is real and we are finite and helpless.  That dependence on this God is something to be desired.

That is why I try to reference the Bible in everything I write as well.  I have opinions and experiences that hopefully are helpful and useful.  But the word of God is so much more:

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17

So thank you, Lisa, for making much of Jesus today in your post and as you parent your daughter.

And I am grateful that there are so many sisters and brothers at Grace Church, like Sue Hume and Karen and Dale Anderson and Chuck Peterson and others, who are helping us at Bethlehem with this issue of disability, and who share our passion for the supremacy of God in all things.  Fellowship with you is very sweet, and God is good to provide such friends to us.