Genesis 1-2:3 (NLT)

In verse five the word days is used twice. The Hebrew word used for day "yowm" is the same in both cases; Yowm is a 24 hour period. A lot of questions are raised just on this one word alone. Does this mean a literal 24 hours? Some people look at 2 Peter 3:8,

"But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day."

This doesn't mean God created the earth in 7,000 years. This means that God is not limited by time, He is not on our timetable. Look at John 2:19,

“All right,” Jesus replied. “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

Jesus was referring to himself on the cross. The Greek word for day "hemera" is also a 24 hour period. Jesus rose in three 24 hour days, not 3,000 years.

Everytime the word day is used (14 times) in Genesis 1-2:3, it is the same word, a 24 hour period. So in six days God created alot.

Day One: Light and darkness
Day Two: The Sky
Day Three: Land,Sea, seed-bearing plants and trees with seed-bearing fruit
Day Four: Sun, Moon and stars
Day Five: Fish and everything that scurries and swarms in the water and every sort of bird
Day Six: Animals, man and woman
Day Seven: God rested

God you are amazing.

He created everything so He could have a relationship with me. Its crazy to think that God wanted me so much that He would create me. But He gave me the choice to love Him. He could have created me to love Him, but He created me with the choice to love Him.

Thank you Lord for all you have done and will continue to do. Thank you for being completely faithful to me when I am faithless.

Easter Weekend

Easter this year was different but good. I'm here in Afghanistan instead of back home with my beautiful wife and daughter. But God, as always was here and made this weekend good.

Friday started out poorly, where I was up since Thursday morning at 0700. I was supposed to go back on guard later Friday night keeping me up for nearly 48 hours. But my platoon sergeant told me that I needed rest. So he took me off guard and told me to go to bed. I decided before going to bed I'd head over to the chapel and play some music and read. Well, to my surprise I was twenty minutes early for a Good Friday service I didn't know about. After all, I had forgotten that it was Good Friday. Needless to say, the service blessed me. Immediately following service they were playing Passion of the Christ. When I say they, I mean the MWR, not the chapel. To top it off, the MWR was playing outside on a projector. If you happened to live fifty feet from the outdoor theater or walk by you would see or hear the movie. Well, we thought things were going to go south as soon as the movie started playing. If you've ever seen Passion of the Christ, it's not in English and normally has captions. This copy did not have captions, no big deal if you actually know the story behind the movie. Well, we were concerned that the non-believers would get up and leave. NO ONE LEFT!!! Everyone stayed, and more people even came throughout the movie.

Let's move on to Sunday morning, Easter Sunday or Resurrection Sunday. This morning was good, about 80 degrees outside clear sky. Music this morning was good and so was the sermon. They even had one guy get baptized this morning. I didn't get a chance to go to the sunrise service but I was told about 22 people went to that. We had about 76 people at the 1100 service this morning. A lieutenant I've been talking about God and creation came this morning. I know a seed was planted; he has been talking about being on the fence and wanting to come to church. He said he will be coming more often.

Closing this out I ask you to pray for the salvation of the lost soldiers over here. These men and women sacrifice their lives, but the majority of them don't have hope for an afterlife. I've been talking to another lieutenant about creation vs. evolution. He does not and refuses to believe. Please pray for him as well. I hope you all have a great Easter weekend.