In honor of our graduating Seniors, Kyle Sligh preached this past Sunday at
GSPC. Kyle brought a message specifically aimed at those soon to be high
school graduates yet deeply applicable for those of us who have long
forgotten the complexities and challenges that await our Seniors.
Everyday we step into an amazing world. As we see in John 1 we live and
move in a world that was created by God through the Word. God did not
simply create this world as a mere toy to watch it spin madly but instead he
participated in his creation. “The Word became flesh.” (John 1:14) The
creator amazingly became a creature in his own creation. Like a father
stoops down and squeezes into a tiny chair, holds a tiny plate, and drinks
imaginary tea from a tiny cup at a tea party hosted by his daughter, God
comes down to “our” world. But unlike that father he does not look so
awkward because he did not just pretend to be like us but he put on our
flesh and became fully man. As Kyle illustrated it is like Tyler Perry who
not only writes and directs his movies but puts on “flesh” (a dress and wig
in this case) and becomes a player in the story he is writing.
God is not some far off presence who wakes up on Sunday morning at 10:30 to
listen to us pray. No, because he is both creator and creature God speaks
with wisdom into every moment of life. When we turn to heaven and say, “O
God help me know what to do,” Jesus the creator is there with the wisdom of
providence to guide us in his purpose. When the pleasures of creation call
to us, Jesus, the creature who turned water into wine, is there to guide us in
his wisdom. When a broken relationship makes you think, “O God why?”, the
creator of all humanity and the creature who was killed by humanity gives
comfort for your pain.
I pray you find comfort and joy in your creator God who became a creature in
his creation.
Peace,
Michael