Fall Creek Christian Church

“But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that he will stand upon the earth at last. And after my body has decayed, yet in my body I will see God! I will see him for myself. Yes, I will see him with my own eyes. How my heart yearns within me! I am overwhelmed at the thought."    Job 19:25-27 As I stood there looking intently into the deep space images captured on film by the Hubble telescope, my sense of smallness was at an all-time high. To be a speck of humanity on a speck of dust called the earth in a speck of a solar system in a speck of a galaxy among galaxies was too overwhelming to process. I withdrew from those photos stunned, but also in awesome wonder of the one who made and sustains it all. Suffering Job found himself lost in wonder too. He was completely overwhelmed at the thought of being in the presence of his Redeemer. Not even his dying and decaying body could dissuade him of the anticipatory joy of seeing God face to face. As a man of great faith, he ...

"I know all the things you do.  I have seen your hard work and your patience endurance.  I know you don't tolerate evil people. ... You have patiently suffered for me without quitting.  But I have this complaint against you.  You don't love me or each other as you did at first!  Look how far you have fallen from your first love!  Turn back to me again and work as you did at first.  If you don't, I will come and remove your lampstand from its place among the churches."  Revelation 2:2-5 It wasn't the fall that got me.  It was the sudden stop at the end.  Apparently, when jumping off a 90 foot cliff into a river, it's important to keep your arms and legs inside the ride at all times.  The jolt of my splat landing was simply unbearable.   In our verses for the day, Jesus spoke a few words about falling.  It wasn't a fall from a cliff, an airplane or a ladder that fired him up. It was a fall from a much greater height that was...