a letter to Tim

Tim,

Just wanted to say thankyou for speaking yesterday on the topic of covenenats using grace, truth, and a heart for Gods children.

The other day i was thinking about Gods love for us, trying to wrap my mind around it, because I struggle with this myself. Sometimes it's almost easier for me to give a break to friends and acquaintances I don't see on a day to day basis, or strangers even.

God gave me crystal clear insight into his love and he showed me the unconditional love I have for my children and how His love works in this way. So simple, but something I've failed to consider for years. When my kids behave badly I am angry with them.  But I  delight again in them  when they come back to what is good and right. It is easy to forgive my kids when they say sorry, I forget about their blunders and folly. The truth is we are living as brothers and sisters in this world, and as brothers and sisters often do, we fight and get angry with each other, vying for the attention of our Father in  heaven in some cases, competing for the attention of man in others. It's so simple, and it's so easy now for me to understand how easy it is for God to forgive and love us and rejoice when we exchange our hearts and confess our sins. It's the same way I feel about my own children (who fight with each other constantly.

N.E ways, the sermon spoke to me, and I wanted to thank you ( and our king) for this.
We had an interesting week, Mike stumbled upon Buddhism and has been talking to me about it all week. He thinks its the same as Christianity, he's under the "all is one" notion that god is everything (the earth, you, me, a leaf on a tree) I tried to illustrate the example that a creator is seperate from his creation by showing him a picture we had hanging on our wall. I said this is not the artist standing here, but his picture hanging on the wall, a created piece of work that we can enjoy, but not worship. The painting is not the artist but simply a piece of work he created. He doesn't get it, and thinks I am corrupted now by Christian terminology. I'm telling you Tim, I am the worst disciple...everyone I marry turns to Buddhism and drugs and ends up at Christ Community church to learn about eastern mysticism, under the falsehood that it's partly christian!!

What a world we are in, thank God for Jesus.