It's Friday Eve!!!!

It's Thursday, the sun is shining and I desprately need a day at the beach!!

I was reading one of my devotionals this morning and it seemed to go along with what we were talking about in Life Group last night.
Last Sunday at church, Mike preached about the differences between Dawinism and Believing in Intelligent Design. We, as Christians, are looked at as being less intelligent because we believe that God created all that we see and not some freak lightning strike in the mud. We are accused of having "blind" faith because we believe in a God that we can't see, touch, smell or touch. DUH! That's what faith is, stupid! Believing without seeing.
We had a lengthy discussion last night about being prepared to give an answer when our "faith" is attacked.
Most of us have never really been attacked or molested because of our faith. The time will come though. Our friend MJ, who is a teacher in a Christian School, said that we have to study, our kids have to study. We have to be students of the Word. We have to know what it says so that we will be able to react not only with faith but also with intelligience.
I agree with that so much. When we know God, I mean really know God, we want to learn more about Him. Our "faith" in Him and our experiences with Him creat a hunger in us to learn more and more. I believe that when we study and allow the Holy Spirit to teach us then when the time is right the answers will ooze from us like sweat from a fat man. There are parts of the scriptures that we will never understand or be able to explain. We can't explain or understand the Trinity or the Rapture or how God could be everlasting both past and future. We can only understand what our human minds have been created to understand. We are limited by our humaness. But that should not keep us from seeking. The problem comes when we spend so much time argueing over what God really meant when He said whatever. The world is dying and going to hell, so we really need to spend so much time in infighting and bickering? It's the WORD OF GOD for God's sake. When I read the prayers of Christ I see a prayer before he was assended that said something like, "I pray that they will be one". How does having a "theological discussion" about predestination, election, the rapture, the Trinity make us unified in the body?
I didn't mean to start a sermon here. I'll post the scripture I read this morning and hopefully shut up. When our children and the world see a "living, breathing" faith in us. A faith in a God that we actually know not just know about. A faith that makes us hungry for more of Him. A faith that makes us passionate about His Word then they the heritage of faith, real faith, will be passed on to our children and when they are faced with some teacher or peer that attacks what they and their parent believe they will be able to answer with knowledge and intelligience and most of all faith.
1 Corinthians 1:26-2:5
[26] Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. [27] But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. [28] He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things-and the things that are not-to nullify the things that are, [29] so that no one may boast before him. [30] It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God-that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. [31] Therefore, as it is written: "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord." [1] When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. [2] For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. [3] I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. [4] My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, [5] so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power.NIV
Blessings
Allen