I have decided to begin writing 2-3 times a week, about what i think about.
I want to begin by talking about a problem i had with a message that i recently heard at an aacf meeting at ucsc. It is not a problem that i had in particular with the speaker, it was more of a problem with a phrase that speakers often use. It is the phrase, “God is first.” While at a first glance, it seems that this is the correct view. Because God is most important, God should be first. My first problem with this phrase is that saying God is first implies that you can finish the task of God. For example, say that I have a list of three things to do. First, i am going to do laundry, then clean my room, then make my bed. Once i finish the laundry, which is first on my list, i am completely done with it, not concerning myself with it anymore. This thinking does not work well with God, as God is not a task but a lifestyle. Thus, this leads me to say that God is not first on the list, but God is the list. Gal 2:20. I have been crucified in Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives within me, the life i live in the body i live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. This verse sufficiently states that we are never done with God, but yet we must be completely engrossed in him, so much so that we no longer live but we are merely bodies for Christ to use and dwell in.
