GCC BLOG
Having to stay at home every day can be a challenge for some. Sometimes it’s like being in a wilderness. I don’t think God meant for us to live in the wilderness but I do think it’s good to visit the wilderness every once in awhile. Because in the wilderness we can learn things. We can learn things about God and about ourselves. Join us as we dive in to Matthew 4!
As you consider Paul’s letter to the Philippians and seek to apply it to our current circumstances, what good fruit should we see as we repent and grow in faith during this trial? This shouldn’t be a private endeavor, so share with someone (from 6 feet away or by zoom of course!) how the Lord is deepening your joy as he makes your more like Christ during this trial!
Right now our technological solutions are how we make due, but if you feel that something's not quite right, you are certainly correct. What we're experiencing now is part of the disintegrating effects of the fall. It's not the way things ought to be. Let's look forward to a day when we will be reunited together in one place either here in Beavercreek or around his throne, reunited to worship and praise his great name.
In these anxious days people are looking everywhere for hope. God’s provision may look drastically different than the provision that we imagine, but His provision is far better. Jesus is the bread of life; he is the bread that came to us from heaven. When we eat this bread, we will live forever. No pandemic can change this truth and no physical bread can meet the eternal need that Jesus meets.
