{"id":292,"date":"2010-01-26T13:57:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T12:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/?p=292"},"modified":"2011-02-25T09:52:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T08:52:18","slug":"his-love-a-blog-from-cheryl-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/his-love-a-blog-from-cheryl-p\/","title":{"rendered":"His Love – A Blog from Cheryl P."},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s another blog from an intern here at the G42 Leadership Academy.\u00a0 Cheryl’s only been here about a month, but she’s getting it!\u00a0 She is jumping into her dreams while she is here, you can read more about them at http:\/\/cherylpenner.wordpress.com. <\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The topic of the past week has been \u201cWhat\u2019s God\u2019s Point?\u201d<\/p>\n

1)\u00a0\u00a0 God has a point<\/p>\n

2)\u00a0\u00a0 He is self-existent<\/p>\n

3)\u00a0\u00a0 He is motivated by LOVE<\/p>\n

4)\u00a0\u00a0 He is pre-existent (not created)<\/p>\n

5)\u00a0\u00a0 His is LOVE<\/p>\n

6)\u00a0\u00a0 Human beings are the only thing that look like Him<\/p>\n

Our homework this week has been to address the question of EVIL.\u00a0 If all these things are true, which we can find biblical basis for all of them\u2026 what is EVIL and more importantly\u2026 DID GOD CREATE EVIL?\u00a0 (I will be doing a follow up blog on this- it\u2019s something that has brought up sooo many questions about truth and I am glad to be searching through things even if I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ll come up with definite solutions)<\/p>\n

We were studying Genesis 1 a little bit\u2026 talking about how when God created he faced three things: EMPTYNESS \u2013 DARKNESS \u2013 CHAOS ~ <\/strong>out of these things he brought FULLNESS \u2013 LIGHT \u2013 ORDER<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This movement from a thing of death to a thing of life speaks volumes to our purpose and calling as children of God, followers of Him.\u00a0 Andrew Shearman related this concept using the example of \u201clust of the flesh\u201d.\u00a0 Lust is a hunger, a perceived need that we try to fill, he mentions how inevitable failure is to that need when we try to legalistically ignore it.\u00a0 So often Christians are perceived as abstainers, people who shut themselves off to things because of religious beliefs.\u00a0\u00a0 I know people have looked at me and thought, \u201cna\u00efve\u201d \u201cboring\u201d and really let them think what they will, but I like Andrew\u2019s way of putting it, that we are called to indulgence, not to abstainance.\u00a0 We conquer sin by living a FULL life, a life full of purpose and full of the Spirit.\u00a0 (which I know is easier said than understood, but I think the goal is to realize that it\u2019s not simple, but it is attainable).\u00a0\u00a0 I think of my life and I realize that I am NOT an indulgent person\u2026 here in Spain, everyday having the time (generally), the freedom and the intentional community to be indulgent in Him has made my heart just totally agree with this notion.<\/p>\n

Indulge in this:<\/p>\n

The #1 Reason I am On the Planet is to BE loved.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It sounds kinda clich\u00e9 and even maybe a little bit fluffy to me actually\u2026 but think about it.\u00a0 God does not need us to love Him, He does not need us to bring Him glory, He IS glory and He IS love.\u00a0 Think to how God walked through the garden with Adam in the cool of the day\u2026 think of how He provided for every need and made everything so good.\u00a0 Adam was lonely, God provided, Adam didn\u2019t need to plead and beg either, it just happened while he was asleep.\u00a0 It\u2019s love, it\u2019s goodness and I think as I\u2019ve been resting in that, I\u2019ve felt a huge weight off my shoulders.\u00a0 When I mess up and fail God which I do often and really just felt like a total failure spiritually which has happened a lot in the last year\u2026 His love is still why I am here.\u00a0 I\u2019m trying to think how many times I have been told that and why I am seeming only to really be resting in it now after an 24 year journey.\u00a0\u00a0 Well\u2026 I\u2019m glad I\u2019m here.<\/p>\n

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I feel like I should take this free time I have this lovely Saturday evening to explain a little about what I\u2019m doing here.\u00a0 Basically Monday to Thursday are classes during the day.\u00a0 Different speakers will come in each week basically equipping us to go out and do whatever ministry the Lord has placed on our heart.\u00a0 Thursday afternoons are supposed to include a practicum component basically where each of us (21 of us in total, 11 in the Villa and 10 at San Sabastien house) starts a ministry, or finds one to hook into and continue developing.\u00a0 It looks like I am working on a few different options.\u00a0 One is spending some time at a hospital with a few other girls who feel called to work with children.\u00a0\u00a0 Another is working with a girl here from Brazil who wants to start a little youth group for young teens in the area, mostly from South America.\u00a0 And one that I have found is starting something with the social services office here.\u00a0 They have a program called Banco de Tiempo (time bank) which is very community development oriented and considering I did my social work practicum in community development I think might be a good place for me to use my skills.\u00a0 The other thing that excites me about this program is the ability to practice spanish \":)\" )!!!\u00a0 as well as the fact that there is no church in Mijas and G42 is on its way to starting one for the community, but obviously in order to do so they\/we will need to get to know the community.\u00a0 If we can get involved in this time bank thing, I think it would be an excellent way of meeting people.\u00a0 Thats the schoolish aspect of it\u2026 the rest is living as a community.\u00a0 11 people in one house, from outside the house I would think it impossible\u2026 we\u2019ve got a married couple, 6 girls and 2 guys in our house.\u00a0 I love it!\u00a0 We eat together, clean together and well we\u2019re just together a lot of the time and of course there is always someone from San Sabastein house over too.\u00a0 When I felt super sick last night\u2026 Steph was right there in my room so I didn\u2019t even have to get out of bed to ask for prayer!\u00a0 (by the way please pray for my health to be guarded, I\u2019m uninsured here since I didn\u2019t plan on being here this long).\u00a0 It\u2019s different being in community like this, but so far it has been really smooth.\u00a0 I am in the more relaxed house, it is generally quieter which is really a relief considering my trouble sleeping. \u00a0\u00a0 I feel like I\u2019m starting to ramble, so that\u2019s all for now, thanks for listening!<\/p>\n

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Here’s another blog from an intern here at the G42 Leadership Academy.\u00a0 Cheryl’s only been here about a month, but she’s getting it!\u00a0 She is jumping into her dreams while she is here, you can read more about them at http:\/\/cherylpenner.wordpress.com. The topic of the past week has been \u201cWhat\u2019s God\u2019s Point?\u201d 1)\u00a0\u00a0 God has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}