Things You Cannot Learn on Google
Good Morning Friends,
One can find just about anything on Google today if you know how to ask the right questions and have a discerning mind to sort through all the information. The problem is that the internet does not come with an authority App that distinguishes truth from fiction Myth from Mystery.
Seeking the Mission of the Church in the Mystery of God is not a virtual experience. Friends, there are some Things You Cannot Learn on Google.
Scripture:Yet you, LORD, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.
Isaiah 64:8 (NIV)
If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
1 John 3:20 (NIV)
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:14 (NIV)
These are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
1 Corinthians 2:10 (NIV)
Message: Some people believe that Google is the closest thing we have to experiencing God…that Google is omnipresent and omniscient. They are wrong. Sure you can get free wallpaper for your desktop and create an unlimited disposable email address with Gmail. You can go to Google Insights to see what people have been searching for. You can translate just about any language. But if one “Googles” for “the Answer to life, the universe and everything”, you do not get much help at all, only a cryptic few comments about the movie and book, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe and some interesting information about the number 42. The reality is that you and I are much more formidable than Google. Google is lousy at writing poetry…it is lousy at love…it is not a very good friend, father or mother. You see if our job as humans involved only applying a set of logical rules to task after task then we might be replaced by a robot, and we might worship one. But our purpose is to glorify God. That requires that the desires of our hearts and of our bodies and minds and our actions be manifested in behavior linked to our experiences of the mystery of God. Google does not search the mind of God. It only helps order ours. So here is a poem from me as a bugle, to witness that life is more than a Google…
The Poet, the Passion and the Potter
Words are gifts to inscribe and impart Feelings and thoughts that rhyme in our heart. A broken phrase and perception to yours made strong in passion So deeply ablaze that I submit the mold of my clay unto lovers fashion My heart now a grace filled vessel no mortal need mend. For you have knit it together, pressed down with force to humbly bend And here in the breath, Spirit and words we are forged in flame The Phrase Maker’s sacrifice and now offered without shame From Potter to Clay as from Words to Thoughts impart A poem, a mold, a Cross inscribing on our souls the Potter’s art
Pray we are melted, molded, filled and used. Pray we realize that we learn of the Word made flesh by living it. Pray we realize that even though God’s grace is for all, God’s presences in our lives is determined in large part by our actions. Pray we realize that life is not a question but a poem arranged in thoughts, not just words. Pray our life reflect our experience of God’s love.
Blessings,
John Lawson
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