Sunday School
This week Sparkhouse Family Sunday School looks at two stories - one in Genesis (the creation) and one at the end of Matthew (the great commission.) In these stories God & Jesus make several things clear.
- God is the creator and the world is his.
- The creation is good. This is repeated multiple times in the Genesis story. God was pleased with his creation. He saw it as good.
- God put someone to be "master of all life upon the earth and in the skies and in the seas." (Genesis 1: 26) That is us. We are to be stewards of God's creation, fulfilling the role God has given to us.
- We are also to spread the good news to others and obey his commands.
- He is with us always, "even to the end of the world." ( Matthew 28:20)
How are we doing? I don't know about you, but this week has been very challenging and depressing to me as I see our world, in the midst of a pandemic no less, wracked with pain, cities ablaze, angry rhetoric spewing from mouths of those who should be building unity and instead are sowing seeds of discord.
We once had the opportunity to go up on Pike's Peak and as we looked down on those "purple mountain's majesty above the fruited plain" (for it was from this view that Katharine Lee Bates wrote America the Beautiful,) I got a glimpse of how God sees the world and how his perspective is so different from our own. When viewing the valley near Pike's Peak from atop the mountain, man's differences seem so small.
God created a good creation. He called it excellent! He put us in charge. These stories today challenge us to protect this creation and work to bring God's kingdom to birth here on earth as in heaven. An old saying says, "If not us, who? If not now, when?" We needn't do it alone. Jesus last words to us are, "be sure of this-that I am with you always, even to the end of the world." (Matthew 28:20)
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