2 hours into the first Undercurrent lock in....6 more to go. :) So the blog has been neglected this week in preperation.

Glo Bible

As I was preparing for the Wednesday night Undercurrent sermon I saw an add for Glo: The Bible for the Digital World. This caught my attention for a few different reasons. The first reason was the word Glo, my Glo Worm was one of my favorite toys when I was very small, so I figures that anything that spelled glow "glo" was worth checking out. LOL! The second, and more important, reason this add caught my attention was the claim that it is "the Bible for the digital world." Now that is a bold claim. I've seen several computer based Bible study tools, many of them helpful, but none of them had an attractive GUI (Graphical User Interface, yes my inner geek leaked out). However, could this, this beautiful work, be everything I have been looking for to bring the Scripture to life and relevance to those of us living in 2009? Maybe, just maybe. I do wish it had more than just the NIV version of the Bible, I do most of my teaching from the Message version nowadays. However, the NIV is what I sunk my teeth into when I was emerging from my cocoon, so it ain't bad if you know what I'm sayin. Check out this Bible for the digital world here. I preordered my copy and can't wait to start using it for personal growth and for teaching!

Enjoy!
Jonathan

Eternity in our hearts

⁹ What does the worker gain from his toil? ¹⁰ I have seen the burden God has laid on men. ¹¹ He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. ¹² I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. ¹³ That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil—this is the gift of God. ¹⁴ I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men and women will revere him. Ecclesiastes 3:9-14


Ecclesiastes is a sobering book of the Bible to say the least. King Solomon was quite pessimistic, if not down right depressed, at this point of his life (ref. 1 Kings 11) yet we can still gain wisdom from this writing. In my opinion, the scripture above is a good snapshot of life. God has put eternity in our hearts. That's why we are never satisfied with just what we see, we are always striving for more. Only through a relationship with Jesus are our strivings quelled. Then, we are able to "eat and drink, and find satisfaction in our work" for the meantime until our hearts are united with the eternal one. Solomon says that God does this so that people will revere Him. Revere means to "show devoted differential honor to" and respect deeply. Now the Princeton University online dictionary defines "revere" in this way -- idolize: love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess.
Based on this, I wonder how many of us really revere God. Do we really love God unquestioningly and uncritically? How different are/would our live's be if we do/did this?