Something Worth Remembering...
The bus promptly departs tomorrow (June 10) at 2:15pm. The annual 8th grade class trip to Washington DC will be under way. This year, I will be joining the trip as a parent. I've heard lots of stories from past attendees. It's going to be a great time and exciting to see the place where so many important parts of our country's history has occurred.
All of that being said, I've been thinking. It is great to see the history of our country. Honorable and trustworthy folks such as Lincoln who set the country on its path and have paid the ultimate sacrifice for what they believed. Yet, while our country has an incredible and storied past, we each have our own history, our own story. On this trip there will be some with decades of personal history (like myself) and others not even halfway through their second decade (like my son and his classmates).
As I was jogging today, my thoughts began to run through all of this talk of history. Something all humanity has in common; being part of a certain time and place, over and over again. Put these together and all of a sudden you have "This is Your Life!!"
What is so amazing for Christians is that we know the God who created all of this. Better yet, we are known by God. The God who created time, creation, you, and me. God is constant, never changing, not constrained by time. He created it!! And yet, God chose to enter time in the birth of Jesus for you and for me, to save the world. It is just so amazing to consider that God would chose to experience and be held captive by time as a man in his creation. A man born at a certain time, in a certain place. But don't think for a second that this was random. "For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly" (Rom. 5:6). God came into the history of the world through Jesus Christ. But even more, God came into your history in baptism.
Baptism begins a new history for believers; a history with God. This story will last for eternity, when we will join God when Jesus returns to claim us as his own.
ps - I'm going to attempt to blog on the web page and add photos to the gallery during the trip.
