The Quest leadership team is really excited to start using this blog to keep people connected and encouraged throughout the week.  We hope that you find it to be useful, encouraging and yet another way to “belong” within the Quest community.  Sunday morning is just a celebration of what happens all week long, and we want many ways for people to plug in throughout the week…both in person and on the computer.   As we start 2010 we encourage you to be looking for weekly posts from Kevin Hughes, the Quest Pastor.  We will also post about different opportunities to worship, grow and serve at First Free.  Finally, you will be able to link to the itunes downloads of each weeks sermons.  So…. if you missed it or you really liked it, it is available to you!  If you have any suggestions or comments about the blog feel free to post them or e-mail me at abarnard@efree.org.

There are so many issues that we deal with, wrestle with, try to manage, try to manipulate, try to control, try to understand, etc., etc., etc.,…..you get the picture.  Many, or most (and usually we hope all) of those issues are something we can do something about.  However, there are times when we figure out that we don’t have the whole world by the tail and that either life is more than we can contain or there is hopefully someone who is above it all and maybe even within it all.  Perhaps there is a God who is infinite yet still personal.  That be the definition of the ideal!  But, if God is not a reality then we have to come to grips with that fact and then move on and figure out life for ourselves.  But what if God is a reality and in fact He is infinite and profoundly personal?  Then all the issues of life take on a whole new dynamic and I am not left alone to understand the issues.  They are defined by His person and seasoned by His presence.

It is clear to me that when I come face to face with my life, and the issues that swirl around me and those I love, that there is a need for a God who is kind enough to care and strong enough to do something about them.  I am not able to control, fix, manipulate, manage, or even understand it all.  It is too much.  And I am left to simply entrust it all to Him….not out of my strength but out of my dependence and need.  And He is there….and He is not silent.

What temptations in your life are you surrendering to?

What or who could help you deal with the temptation to be conformed to this world system?

Are you willing to daily surrender yourself to Christ and allow Him to be glorified in every part of your life?

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