Saturday afternoon....

It is getting hotter and hotter in Santa Clarita... most of you know I'm not a huge fan of heat....

I really want to be deep right now, to say something moving, to make a profound theological impact on the blogosphere that will resound throughout cyberspace, but I can't think of anything. Nothing deep. I suppose I could write about what I'm learning from the character study of Saul (the King, not Paul) I'm doing... except I'm still trying to put together the pieces. I had intended to study dispensationalism really in depth, but I started on this Saul thing and I just can't stop. He is fascinating. So many chances to get it right. He had tons of privileges. He was the first king of Israel, for crying out loud. And yet, without fail, he blows it, time after time. Even in death, he was a failure-- he committed suicide!

But I can't get much deeper than that right now. Summer's kinda zapping me. I pretty much went this past schoolyear non-stop and I'm still feeling pretty drained.

I'm so glad God is not like us. I think that if I was a racehorse, I'd probably be slated for the glue factory right about now. I honestly don't know how I'm gonna do two more years of undergrad, let alone grad school. But God doesn't give up on us. He doesn't turn us out to pasture. He takes the broken, the wrecked, the exhausted, the sinful, the wretched, the stressed, the confused, the helpless, and He does something with them. I think He's still got some use for me left.... how do I know? As of right now, I'm not dead. And as long as I'm living, there's something more I can do for God's glory. Now that's a cool thought. I don't think I'm gonna do any of the things I thought I'd be doing with my life as recently as a year ago..... but I know I'm still going to be used by God for God.


Ok, I've got to go watch a friend get married now. Now there's a deep thought-- I'm about to watch one of the people I graduated from High school with (only two years ago!) GET MARRIED. Holy cow.