Rocking and Rolling on the Dock

Some of us ORU girls took a long boat ride yesterday. It was a perfect day, unlike most of the really hot ones we've had this summer.  At lunch time, we stopped at a popular restaurant at the lakes, the Olde Harbor Inn. We love to eat out on the deck over the water.  This time, I started feeling a little seasick. At first I thought it was from looking at the moving water. Later I realized it was because a man at the next table had a really nervous leg. He was rather muscular as well and he was actually shaking the deck.  We were rocking and rolling right at  our table.  As much as we enjoyed our food, it was a relief to finish and get  our feet on solid ground again.

Many of us are praying that our nation will return to God. We already believe in him, but many of us don't really believe what he says.  If you are have not read the Bible before. I challenge you to start reading it. Begin with the book of John in the New Testament. It is a chapter on love. It will make you feel really good, when you realize that God is love and that he loves you. 

Reading the Bible is important if we really want to know God. He isn't a distant God. He tells us what he likes and what he doesn't like because it isn't good for us. Again, I challenge you to read it for yourself.

John 3:16-17 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only  son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him."

After reading the New Testament, it is good to go back to the old and see what happened before Christ came into the world to save us.

Jonah 3:10  "When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he had compassion and did not bring upon them the destruction he had threatened."

II Chronicles 7:14  "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble  themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land."