A little Q and A:
"Due to the demands of your hockey schedule, how do you keep your relationship with the Lord vibrant when you can't attend church as frequently?"
"Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?"
- 1 Corinthians 3:16.
During the hockey season, we typically play or travel on Sundays. This makes it difficult to attend church services regularly. However, it's important to know that you don't have to be in church to experience God. When we accept Jesus into our hearts, we are beginning a personal relationship with him. Like the 1 Corinthians verse explains, we have the Holy Spirit living within us. Therefore, we can meet God anywhere, anytime.
In the Canadian Women's Hockey League, we (Boston Blades) spent a huge chunk of time on a bus. Weekend series at Montreal required 14 hours round-trip and the Brampton/Toronto games meant a solid 10 hours there and 10 hours back. Even though I missed the majority of Sunday services due to my hockey schedule, God provided countless ways for me to meet regularly with Him. Writing was one such way. Below is an example of congregating with Christ on a bus ride back to Boston.
February 11, 2012
10 hour bus ride...why not write a brief article about a question I was recently asked? Enjoy:
Question - Where is God when Africans are starving and dying?
By asking this question, a person acknowledges that there is in fact a God and that He must represent good. They also imply that not only does He represent good; but, He can make good things happen.
By acknowledging this, they allude that God is present or has the ability to be present in Africa.
So, God is in Africa. Who else resides there? Humans. Can humans perform both good and evil acts? Well, first off, can they recognize good and evil? Again let me bring you back to the initial question...is it not implying that something bad is happening to those in Africa? Taking it further, then is it not also implying that this bad can be changed by something good?
Based on the question, humans can recognize good and evil and can distinguish between the two.
Therefore, humans live in Africa and have the ability to not only recognize good and evil, but to carry it out.
Google Africa outreach, war against starving children, or war against African poverty and you'll find amazing organizations funneling billions of funds, expertise, medical attention, resources, etc. to help these people.
Google Robert Mugabe.
Striking examples of humans exercising their freedom to choose to follow good or evil.
God loved us so much that He gave us free will. Every person has the ability to listen to Him. Every human is given the choice to pursue good. Every living soul can make a decision out of unconditional love. But we can also run from instruction, turn a deaf ear, and harden our hearts. We also have the power to inflict pain, rage, anger, hurt, suffering, and every other monstrosity.
Question - where is God when Africans are starving and dying?
Answer - God is present.
My question - Why aren't people choosing good?
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This is an example that we can encounter God everywhere, all the time. Whether we are sitting in a pew or a hockey bus, we can grow in faith. How is this possible? "God's Spirit lives in you" (1 Corinthians 3:16).
God bless,
G.I.G.I.
"Due to the demands of your hockey schedule, how do you keep your relationship with the Lord vibrant when you can't attend church as frequently?"
"Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?"
- 1 Corinthians 3:16.
During the hockey season, we typically play or travel on Sundays. This makes it difficult to attend church services regularly. However, it's important to know that you don't have to be in church to experience God. When we accept Jesus into our hearts, we are beginning a personal relationship with him. Like the 1 Corinthians verse explains, we have the Holy Spirit living within us. Therefore, we can meet God anywhere, anytime.
In the Canadian Women's Hockey League, we (Boston Blades) spent a huge chunk of time on a bus. Weekend series at Montreal required 14 hours round-trip and the Brampton/Toronto games meant a solid 10 hours there and 10 hours back. Even though I missed the majority of Sunday services due to my hockey schedule, God provided countless ways for me to meet regularly with Him. Writing was one such way. Below is an example of congregating with Christ on a bus ride back to Boston.
February 11, 2012
10 hour bus ride...why not write a brief article about a question I was recently asked? Enjoy:
Question - Where is God when Africans are starving and dying?
By asking this question, a person acknowledges that there is in fact a God and that He must represent good. They also imply that not only does He represent good; but, He can make good things happen.
By acknowledging this, they allude that God is present or has the ability to be present in Africa.
So, God is in Africa. Who else resides there? Humans. Can humans perform both good and evil acts? Well, first off, can they recognize good and evil? Again let me bring you back to the initial question...is it not implying that something bad is happening to those in Africa? Taking it further, then is it not also implying that this bad can be changed by something good?
Based on the question, humans can recognize good and evil and can distinguish between the two.
Therefore, humans live in Africa and have the ability to not only recognize good and evil, but to carry it out.
Google Africa outreach, war against starving children, or war against African poverty and you'll find amazing organizations funneling billions of funds, expertise, medical attention, resources, etc. to help these people.
Google Robert Mugabe.
Striking examples of humans exercising their freedom to choose to follow good or evil.
God loved us so much that He gave us free will. Every person has the ability to listen to Him. Every human is given the choice to pursue good. Every living soul can make a decision out of unconditional love. But we can also run from instruction, turn a deaf ear, and harden our hearts. We also have the power to inflict pain, rage, anger, hurt, suffering, and every other monstrosity.
Question - where is God when Africans are starving and dying?
Answer - God is present.
My question - Why aren't people choosing good?
---------
This is an example that we can encounter God everywhere, all the time. Whether we are sitting in a pew or a hockey bus, we can grow in faith. How is this possible? "God's Spirit lives in you" (1 Corinthians 3:16).
God bless,
G.I.G.I.
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