Church

My favorite devotional bible is the Oswald Chambers One Year Bible. I should call it my Four Year bible, though, as I read one page a day.  In it there's both an old testament and a new testament reading with a psalm and proverb in between. 

For me, as I look at Genesis abruptly juxtaposed beside Matthew, I grieve all that time before Christ, the countless lives lived before God's hopeful Answer comes to mankind's main problem.

And then there's the countless lives since the fact God's offer of grace in the Cross. 

So now what is God after taking so long to bring resolution? Is it not that God's main agenda is the building of the church ... This is God's apparent answer to the Fall, to Cain killing Abel, to the reason Noah had to build that boat, right through Gethsemane through Rome, and the Reformation ... and on and on. 

Though I long for Christ's return in new and deep ways, comfort comes by letting God provide His big answers to the questions He provokes.  And to survive grieving, my focus has to be that of being present to today, looking for God's involvement in my tiny questions for today.

Paul captures this tension for the big idea people, often a little lost like me, in the passage Acts 17:26-28.
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Have I invested myself, my being, in my church?