Hello friends,
I hope everyone is well and enjoying the day. I want to remind folks that this Sunday we are having a memorial/dedication service for the veterans of the Revolutionary War who are buried in our cemetery. During church we will have a reading from a selection of the Declaration of Independence and after worship we will have a brief service of remembrance. The focus of the service is religious freedom and independence, something that we all cherish.
The text for the sermon is Job 38:1-7 – it is the beginning of God’s answer to Job’s questions and wonderings. Remember, Job has suffered much and is demanding an answer for his suffering. Job claims that he does not deserve his suffering, assuming that God only allows those who deserve to suffer to enduring suffering. Yet God responds in such a way that humbles Job and puts him in his theological place.
So often we try to create a theological box to place God in. We create an assumption of who we think God is supposed to be, how God is supposed to act and then get upset when things don’t go the way we want them to God. Really, we are getting upset when God does not act in the way we want God to act. Yet God is bigger than we are. God cannot be put into any box, cannot be controlled or told what to do. Can we let go of our demanding assumptions? Can we have a relationship with God that does not confine the Lord to our projections and assumptions? Can we free God and then follow God with a sense of submission, trust and grace?

Peace,
Jonathan
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Rev. Jonathan A. Malone
Pastor
Lower Merion Baptist Church
911 New Gulph Road
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

610-525-1855
www.lowermerionbaptist.org
www.theosnob.blogspot.com

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Rev. Jonathan A. Malone
Pastor
Lower Merion Baptist Church
911 New Gulph Road
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

610-525-1855

http://www.lowermerionbaptist.org/

http://www.theosnob.blogspot.com/