Story of God - Part II

Last week, I started part one of a blog Series I will continue through over the next little while called “Story of God”. I last left off about how excited I was prior to the last gathering and how much more excited I was after the gathering.

How do I feel about our latest gathering that took place last night?

Definitely I was excited to go to it. After? Well, if you haven't read some of my previous blogs – I've been going through a time where I'm suffering from Anxiety. Even just trying to get to this meeting I almost felt an anxiety attack coming along, but once I was there in the moment, all my anxiety had left.

We started talking about the story of Cain and Abel, and later moving forward to the story of Noah and the Flood. Yes, these stories on their own, I can see potential that could cause my anxiety to get worse, but it's the hidden things in the stories that helped me calm down and my anxiety to really disappear.

Looking at different stories – the Fall of Adam and Eve, Cain murdering his brother Abel, and the great Flood – all have similarities within them, they also have their differences, but when you look past the differences you start to see the similarities.

The main similarity: God's unending love for humans – which may not seem like at, but when you dig deeper in the story you see that God is disciplining the humans for choices that we as humans have made.

Ultimately, we have a choice – to do what is good, or to do what is evil. My question would become “what is evil?” - but I'm sure that is awaiting us in a future story.

So, in my mind was the Story of God gathering a success? Most definitely!

Am I looking forward to the next gathering? You bet!