The Way Matt Sees It

I spent approximately 20 hours outside this past weekend.  It was beautiful weather the entire time, with the sun shining and it being between 80 – 90 degrees.  I had the opportunity to speak at a sectional Royal Rangers Pow Wow meeting, with about 130 people there.  Sunday was Searchlight Church’s picnic, which was a blast. Perhaps the only downside was the thousands of cicadas that were everywhere (if you don’t know, I really dislike insects), but thankfully they are completely harmless and are really slow, so they don’t really surprise you. The Glory of God Revealed Anyway, I think there is something special about spending an extended amount of time outside.   Even spending just a few minutes outside can be powerful.   I think that God’s glory is revealed in a special way when we meditate on Him in His creation. “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.” (Psalm 19:1) The Pow Wow was in Blairstown, NJ and we were surrounded

Sometimes Jesus’ words can make you look twice and go, “ What was that again?”  If you’ve grown up in church, it can be easy to dismiss these sayings because we’ve heard them before, but honestly when you think about it, some of His sayings are pretty strange! Hungry Much? One of these sayings are in John 6.   Right before this, Jesus fed 5,000 men (aka 15,000 – 20,000 people), and now the crowds followed Him across the sea to get even more food from Him.   When they ask for more food, Jesus responds by saying they need to eat Him!   He says that He is the “bread of life,” and that we need to eat His flesh and drink His blood to have eternal life. Come on, I mean just think about this.   If a hairy, homeless guy appeared on CNN talking about how we need to eat his flesh and drink his blood to live forever, what would you think?   I mean this is just not a normal thing to say! After Jesus says these things, many of His followers found this difficult to take seriously