Adam
My daughter gave me a devotional book about men in the Bible. Obviously they begin with Adam. Here’s something I might have considered but if I had it has been a looooonnnnnggggg timmmeeee. After God breathed life into Adam, what were his first thoughts? What am I? Who am I? Where am I? What are the sounds I’m hearing? What are all these strange looking things around me? Imagine waking from a sleep and stretching out your limbs and wondering what these limbs are? How self aware was he? Like in SNL, “what were his Deep Thoughts?” And “What is this presence that I feel? What? Who? is this voice I keep hearing? And what is a voice?
Just imagine the questions? And before Eve, “Where’d he get the answers? Oh yeah, Prensence. This is a pretty interesting thought process. And not only that but Adam had a chance to truly craft his present and his future, more than any of the rest of us. Imagine having only one limitation – don’t eat from one tree.
Now what would you do with a church plant that had only one limitation? In essence, you are the only limitation to your church plant. Do you believe that? Yes we have to deal with other entitiies, but obstacles stretch you as a leader, they don’t limit God’s Kingdom and His church. If God has called you, He has promised to supply you: “my God shall supply all your needs, He has promised to equip you: …for every good work, He has promised never leave you…
So now imagine God has wiped the slate clean…what will you do with a new slate? You awake each day with a new slate, a new beginning, what will you do with the new world in which God has placed you?
