God's Word and Your Work

Without some symbolic structure by which hope is expressed, one would be, as the anthropologist Clifford Geertz puts it, “a kind of formless monster with neither sense of direction nor power of self-control, a chaos of spasmodic impulses and vague emotions.”

We must imagine some end to life that transcends our tiny allotment of days and hours if we’re to keep at bay, the “dim, back-of-the-mind suspicion that one may be adrift in an absurd world.”

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Delbanco goes on to say that people struggle with “a lurking suspicion that all of our getting and spending amounts to nothing more than fidgeting while we wait for death.”

People are desperate for a story to join their lives to. A grande narrative that lifts our lives from insignificance to a sense of calling.

How wonderful, that as followers of Jesus, we’re a part of that kind of story. What Tozer called, The True Myth.”

At the core of Jesus’ calling to each of us, is the call to follow him, to become more like him, and to make disciples who follow Jesus, become more like him and make disciples who do the same.

To think that this can be accomplished in the 10 hours or so of each mth, where people attend a Sunday Gathering and Small Group of some kind, happen in the

English Standard Version Chapter 1

1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

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3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

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11 And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. 12 The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

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26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

27 So God created man in his own image,

in the image of God he created him;

male and female he created them.

28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over

English Standard Version Chapter 2

2 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

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5 When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, 6 and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground— 7 then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. 8 And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground the LORD God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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10 A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. 11 The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there.

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15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

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