Thank God It (was) Friday

I think it's an artifact of the crazy hours I kept during my school days that when I get tired, at the normal time, if I don't go to bed right away I become alert again within about 30 or so minutes and can no longer fall asleep. Maybe that's the curse of being an engineer. Lord knows I'm not an English major.

After a few zany hours at work going back and forth with Dan yet again, I drove up to Lynchburg to see Cherise for a few hours, subsequently getting my ass handed to me in mini-golf. I can't say for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if I won the second 18-hold round because she had pity.... though I did shoot a little better. Apparently, Wii baseball didn't help me much either, since I missed every single pitch at the batting cages. That said, she easily managed to make the completely sucktastic sports performance well worth the trouble. I don't usually have a personal cheering section when I'm playing the Wii, maybe that's what threw me off.

I've come to be a fan of Melissa Scott's TV program, in which she continues her husband's long standing ministry which concentrates around delving into the original languages of bible texts, in a way that's both succinct and clear and at the same time broad-based and confusing. The text from the other day concerned Paul's reference to power being "in" Christians by means of the Spirit and noted the similarity between the language used and that used in reference to Christ dwelling in flesh.

The divinity of the Son of God was made manifest in a real human body and soul; in the same way, the Spirit enters in at conversion, enlivening the dead nature and investing in it a divine power; this is what Paul means when he speaks of the power of Christ being in us. It's not a power that acts on us, as if God were the one acting without our efforts, but God acts through our efforts; as Paul put it "it is I who live, and yet not I, but Christ in me." It's an incredible context, in the real meaning of that word, because it invests a wealth of meaning into even the smallest everyday events. None but that power can truly mortify sin. None but that power can truly accomplish anything for the cause of Christ.

People think miracles are things that have no discernible human agency. God's greatest miracles aren't divided Red Seas, walking on water, or healing with a touch; His greatest miracles are worked out, under the proverbial radar, in and through the everyday lives of Spirit-empowered human agents. Every day is the Lord's day, because He's got first dibs on every minute. Every day is the Lord's day, because He's the only One for whom I am living.