Shaun demonstrated to us at Campus Crusade a mental image. He told us to close our eyes, and visualize the most star-filled sky out there that we’ve ever seen. Then, to hold a dime at arm’s-length to find a totally black spot the size of that dime (or other coin depending on your financial situation). Then, to imagine what we would see if we aimed the Hubble Space Telescope at that specific area.

Open your eyes.

A picture. Of what astronomists found when they did something similar to this. And they found that in that “black” space, were at least 1500 galaxies in “various stages of evolution”. How amazing.

How worthy God is of our worship. He is the the only One worthy of our worship.

So what is missions? Missions is the re-orienting of people to give their focuses to the ONLY ONE who is worthy of worship! God wants everyone’s attention and worship (willing worship). Until everyone knows that God would love and cherish the worship that they could give him, missions is still an objective!

Now, I noticed that Shaun said “the God of the Bible”. Why did he say that? It’s because he believes (as do I) that the God of the Qu’ran, the God of the Book of Mormon, the God of the other books simply does not have any resemblance to the God of the Bible. Nowhere in any other text is God compassionate, humble, merciful, gracious, personal, and forgiving (all of these traits, not just one of ‘em). Nowhere in any other text does God come down to man in the form of a man to save man (or humanity, whichever sounds better).

Because I believe that the God of the Bible did this, I am eternally in debt to him. So much so that he deserves my life entirely. Well, he has allowed me the control of my own life, but to give it back to him to control would be the only thing closest to “adequate”. Although not at all adequate, he says that’s all he asks for! How amazing.

Man, do I ever need the Lord right now. And I’m glad he forgives, is merciful, and gives me many more chances than I deserve. He’s still there, even if I can’t especially feel him right now.

It seems Evanescence mirrors my emotions. Check out out a wonderfully worded and mixed version of “My Immortal” at their site. Or listen here.

when you cried i’d wipe away all of your tears

when you’d scream i’d fight away all of your fears

and i’ve held your hand through all of these years

but you still have all of me

© 2003 Wind-Up Records

Please take comfort in knowing that God is in control, He knows best, and is working in you, people around you, and your circumstances. The single greatest focus you should have is on Jesus’ call — to follow Him and bear His cross.

Know that your commitment can be strong even when you don’t let others’ needs dictate your response, or when you don’t allow your own needs take the place of what Jesus asks of you.

Now I’m gonna go take a stroll. See what there’s to eat at the Mountain caf.

Didn’t study for physics (man, I’m gonna pay on Sunday afternoon or evening), but I did add another page to the Apologetics page!

I also added a commenting system suggested by Alex, so you can now tell me what you think about my posts. Maybe I’ll even add the commenting to the apologetics and the music, etc. That would be cool.

Fixed up a whole bunch of archive links, using the practicality of PHP, and fixed the counters on all the pages (that’s right, every single page has a counter). Thanks Mr. Pierre Far for his help with the counters — it’s wicked!

Nice conversation with Miranda. She’s pretty cool, a Fine Arts student. Interesting background too - another one hurt by stupid Christians (there’s a lot of ‘em out there). Good thing not all Christians are insensitive.