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
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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