Thread by @joelhouston

The entire premise of ‘So Will I’, is the redemptive, creative, authority & power of God’s Word. That at the end of the day, all our best theories, ideas, dogmas & best attempts at understanding, will ultimately surrender to the “Word at the beginning”, (to quote another song!)

Let me also add—God is WAY bigger than we think. We can try box Him any way we like, with science, theology, a tweet or a song—HE IS UNDIMINISHED by our limitations.

If God’s creative process was an easy working week, or finely crafted over six-ages of millennia, does it make Him any more or less God? Or, us any more or less created in His image?
Either way, It was an unfathomably wonderful six-day process. however you think to see it

As we are so naturally prone to do; we tend to ‘adapt’ the things we see and hear to ‘fit’ the ‘survival’ of our ‘preferred’ ideas...

And COMPLETELY MISS the PREMISE, the PROCESS, the PURPOSE, & the PROMISE of the BIG-STORY!!!!!

In other words—God’s WORD is “undeniably” DEEP-ENOUGH to transcend, refine, redefine & redeem the expanses of our shallow perspectives—BECAUSE, let’s remember what it’s all about—
THE WORD BECOMING FLESH PART! Jesus literally spent 9-odd-months growing limbs inside Mary’s belly!!

Worth adding, we were aware of the implications “evolving” would serve as a conflicting adjective for some—but thought it was worth it—if just a foolish desire to enlarge our thinking of a God who was-is-&-is to come, making all things new, ‘from-Him, through-Him, To-Him”—

The way I see it—the NATURE of a fallen-world evolves in-decay BECAUSE of our best attempts to adapt to a—‘survival of the fittest’ kind of existence—yet God, fully reveals His NATURE in-and-through JESUS, who embodied ours, and showed us a DIFFERENT way. Spirit & Flesh.

So, we can’t just sing the second-verse (God of Your PROMISE) in &of itself, nor understand it w/out the premise of the first-verse-first: (God of CREATION). Nor can we fully comprehend the reconciling power of the third-verse (God of SALVATION), without the tension in the middle

Lastly, it’s ultimately all about our response. How we respond is almost always driven by how we see things—
one way or another; obedience or rebellion, trust or pride, hope or fear—ultimately—it’s all in response to the divine creative mystery of this work of art called love.