Truly we hit the ground running today. After prayer and fellowship early this morning with the team, we jumped into today's lessons. We continued in Genesis where we took a closer look at the 6th day of creation in chapter 2 and the fall in chapter 3 after a great time of praise and worship.
In Genesis chapters 1 and 2 we see that God has provided a sanctuary where God and man can dwell together. God as the creator has the rights and authority over creation. Man is formed out of the ground and God breathes life into him. This is something to truly marvel at.
When we want God's care, provision and protection apart from his direction, which we can perceive as telling us what to do, we call that "entitlement".
God has the right to set boundaries in which we should live to keep us within His creative order. This is meant to preserve our life.
When we blur the lines between the Creator and creation everything becomes skewed and we tend to elevate ourselves and diminish God. We can do this with food, sex, work, etc. We elevate "things" over the one who created these things. When we depend on the creation, rather than the Creator, this is called idolatry.
In Genesis 3 the serpent comes on the scene, deceives Eve and now an unraveling and fracture of creation occurs. Every mental disorder, physical ailment, and suffering has come from this. We see the magnitude of the suffering that will ensue due to this. Ultimately, God curses the serpent and offers hope by pointing to a sacrificial system of redemption which is a picture of the Christ to come.
Michael spoke about the Insanity Cycle of Sin and what the only Remedy is - The Gospel of Jesus Christ. In conclusion, we covered what is the response of faith: repentance.
Two (of many) attributes of God: mercy and justice.
We move from God's justice to God's mercy through repentance.
We broke in to small groups to discuss a few questions in order to examine where our hearts are before the Lord in our suffering and circumstance.
After training we all dispersed. Michael visited his sponsored child, Zakayo, at Naomi's Village, who has new baby rabbits.
Pastor Isaac and Ryan traveled to Navisha for groceries. Esther, Rachael, Pastor Timothy, and Josh walked around Maai Mahiu town, and Kristin stayed and visited with a few RVF leaders.
Guess what's for dinner? If you guessed ugali, you'd be correct. A Kenyan staple and favorite food. All of us mzungus ate it the traditional way - with our fingers.
After dinner the team performed a traditional Kenyan dance? You decide.
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