it’s tuesday and, as is my custom most tuesdays, i’m printing cds. we mail out sermon cds to anyone who signs up, many of which are our local service men and women who are out on deployment.

it wouldn’t be quite as monotonous except that as my vaio continues toward the grave more and more things have stopped working normally if at all.

for example, i was going to try to learn a new song or two…but apparently the official stance of my sound card is that i shouldn’t listen to music through the internet, my cd-drive or iTunes. instead, i am only allowed to hear the bings and bongs of the background system (you know, like when windows goes ‘bing! your computer is crashing right now! bong! you’re out of hard-drive space!’).

another example, whenever i double-click to open a folder, like say…on my desktop, it just takes me to the windows explorer search program…it wasn’t helpful when i first installed XP and it isn’t helpful now.

anyway, today is tuesday and i am continuing prep for sunday’s worship. i don’t get too thematic in my set choosing, usually i’m more interested in musical variety and flow. i’m pretty sure i have 1 or 2 songs locked in, so we’re about 40% of the way there.

which reminds me, it’s time to email my team!

what do you think we should play?

blessings and maranatha

read-out-of-the-day

passage – Genesis 22-25

margin note - regarding Genesis 24:10: that was some hard work.

stand-out - it’s very interesting to me that the servant of abraham is never named in this section. all through Genesis we’ve been seeing the names of people that are of little Biblical consequence…in fact, just a chapter before we learned the names of a bunch of people abraham dealt with in buying a burial plot for his wife. in earlier chapters we read dozens of names of people who didn’t really do anything and won’t be mentioned again.

then we get to Genesis 24 and this remarkable servant goes unnamed throughout the whole episode.

it stands out to me because he represents any servant of the Master. he carried out the wishes of his lord exactly as he was asked and, not only that, he rejoiced in doing it. he didn’t need his name recorded because he wasn’t interested in himself, only in completing the task he was given by his master.

in an era where we talk so much about ‘burn-out’ i see this guy saddling up 10 camels and setting out on a difficult journey, never resting till his task is complete. i see this guy not taking the reasonable 10 days off to stay with rebekah’s family because it was more important to finish his mission and deliver the bride to isaac. i see this guy wrangling 10 gigantic land animals in ancient sandals without convenience, without ease, without any reward other than the chance to go on a special assignment for abraham.

and all that without complaining and without the notoriety of having his name recorded in the Word.

i want to be like this guy.

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bibling, in general, worship | January 8th, 2008