Sunday Sermon On Gifts

 

Gifts. What comes to mind? A present that is given at a party or celebration? So is it a surprise spiritual gifts are presents as well? They may get shared by God in celebration of life and goodness. Or they may get given to mark milestones of faith reached. Or they may get given purely out of love. 

Gifts are freely given for good use. The only requirement for some gifts is a love of humanity and belief in God's goodness. Intelligent people may get powers from their knowledge. Knowledge provides potentials. Gifts like bread do not require the recipient to know how a loaf is made. 

The theatrics of creation may confuse people. They may think there is no god. Or they may find it impossible to believe God is good. People may even rationalize that the creation is too big to be created or composed of too small pieces to be an act of creation. Some may even feel it is too lawless for a moral creator to exist. 

Where gifts are found, there is a sign from God that people are worthy to receive. Gifts are a seal of Grace that shows people believe in God and God's goodness in creation. A sign people can see order and trust in a happy ending when accounts are settled. Evidence people believe in life after the death of mortal bodies in a spiritual realm. 

You are on the path to seeing God's goodness if you can believe in creation by visualization. Further, belief in a theater of the mind caused infinite variety in sets, sciences based on building blocks, and all the theater arts variables from production to production puts you are on the path to seeing God's goodness even in worlds of crime, disease, war, and death...

How great God is with infinite variety in the creation and all the wonders displayed in the heavens and Earth. How powerful God is causing Big Bangs, supernovas, and even lightning bolts. How wonderful God is with creation containing family, lovers, and friends. How mighty God is bearing death on a cross in his mortal life and yet being God-King Forever... 

Fall in love with creation. Then humanity will have a proper theater place and become more lovable. Who knows, maybe you will get gifts? Perhaps you will meet the living invisible, infinite God? Maybe things will not look so bad anymore when you hear the news of the day...