NSF

This last week’s class focused on God’s Nature and Character. I wish there was a way to describe it all in this blog, but the depth of it is too much to fit into words here! But, I’ll try give to give you all a taste. We described God’s Nature as triune (3 in 1), eternal, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, and possessing a personality with will, intellect, and emotion. From His nature, God makes choices that form His character—love is the center and from love comes righteousness, mercy, wisdom, truthfulness, and faithfulness. The biggest part of the whole lesson for me though, was realizing the risk God takes in making love His highest law. Love wouldn’t be love it were forced and God, being all-knowing, knew this and makes loving Him a choice! In class we used the example of a boy asking a girl out on a date. In asking, he runs the risk of being rejected. The same is true for God. He runs the risk of being rejected everyday, yet He continually runs after us because He wants to love on us! Just as him loving us is a risk, we can choose to lead our lives in faith as risk or no risk. I’ve heard in church before and read it in the bible to “let God’s will be done.” At first it sounds like no risk involved on my part, God is in control and He runs the show. But looking at it a second time, completely submitting and letting God’s will be done is a HUGE risk. To let God’s will be done means I have to let go of my own will, my own desires, and let them die. That isn’t always the easiest thing, but if I look at God’s character, there is no reason to doubt that God’s will is the perfect, and most rewarding, way anyways.

Not only does God love, but also He is fun! So yesterday we had an NSF day—non-stop fun! We drove to a resort and spent the day swimming. They had a two slides—a big slide that reminded me of the slides at work and one that reminded me of a smaller version of those green and yellow slides at the Wisconsin state fair! We spent a lot of time going down those or relaxing in the different pools. The weather and the company were perfect!

The rest of the week was great too. Wednesday we threw a party for Monique. It was a surprise party for her and trying to keep it a secret from her almost killed me! You can watch a video her and Jocelyn made about the party and other updates from here, look at Monique’s blogspot— http://www.moniqueslaughter.blogspot.com/

"The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love." Galatians 5:6.