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Who I Am

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  In a couple weeks, there will a song introduced into the worship service.  It is to be sung with a track and the words projected on the overhead.  I am familiar with the song, but without written music, it is necessary to know the musical track well enough to know when to begin singing, when to pause, and when to continue.   🎼 🎶 🎶  “I’m a child of God, yes I am.” 🎶 🎶  I’ve had the song in my head all week, and truths from it keep popping into my day.  Just who am I? We are defined by so many things.  For example… I am James T and Betty’s oldest child.   I am wife to Kerry Pinkham. I am the mother of two sons, grandmother to three granddaughters and one grandson. I am a sister, an aunt, and cousin.  I am a hairdresser. I am a friend, a church member, a work associate.   But so what? Do my connections to other people really define me?  Is so, how? I am challenged by the lyrics of the song we will be singing, 🎶 “I am who You say I am.” 🎶  It matters very little what my circumstan
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Relational

God could have made robots.  He could have never placed the tree of knowledge where humans could access it.   He could have, but He did not.   He formed the first human, breathed life into the clay, and began forging a relationship with him.   Adam was made in God’s image. Adam learned language and communication as he and God named the myriad of animals that had been created.  There were males and females of all these creatures. None of them suitable for Adam.   Adam, a likeness to His Creator, is relational. “…God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.  So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” Genesis 1:26-27 NIV “ The Man named the cattle, named the birds of the air, named the wild animals; but he didn't find a suita
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God Walking

“ Now they heard the sound of  the L ORD  God walking in the garden in the cool of  the day…” Genesis 3:8 NASB What did that sound like? Does God still walk?
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Purpose

“Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden  to cultivate it and keep it.”  Genesis 2:15 NASB  Before God created the first human, He created all other plant and animal life.  After He created Adam, and the garden, He put Adam into that garden for a purpose.   THEN… “… the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him… The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.   ."  (Vs.18 & 22) Before the curse, there was yard/garden work for man to do.  I wonder what that looked like ? 
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Separated

 God separated darkness from light.   God separated water from water, creating atmosphere…sky.  He separated water and dry ground, calling them land and sea.  Sin separated humans from their Creator.   “ At one time you were separated from God. You were enemies in your minds because of your evil ways.   But because Christ died, God has brought you back to himself.”Colossians 1:21-22 NIrV Separated, but redeemed and restored. Hallelujah  
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Spirit Hovering

“  Spirit of God was hovering…” NIV Genesis 1:1 seems to be a general introduction to what Moses is beginning to write.  “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”   Verse 2 continues, “now the earth was formless, and empty.”   THAT was about to change!  Because the Spirit of God was hovering.  The Spirit of God turns what is lifeless and empty into life, beautiful , and with purpose.  He still does.  Hallelujah. 
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Light Invented

  “Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.”  Genesis 1:3 NASB  The sun had not been created.  It was not spoken into existence  until day number four.   God needs no sun to provide light. He needs no source.  He needs no moon, he needs nothing to reflect light. We do. And all that He was about to create would need light.  No hindsight, no oops, the design was without flaw from the first word He spoke.  
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