Text Box: GOOD HOPE LUTHERAN PASTOR WAYNE GARMAN TITONKA, IOWA 50480 OFFICE PHONE: 928-2282 PARSONAGE: 928-2552 KITCHEN: 928-2780 EMAIL: goodhope@netins.net (Pastor) ghsecy@netins.net (Secretary) Text Box: VOL. XVVI No. 11 November 2009 Text Box: Dear fellow members of the family of Christ! A Sunday school teacher was attempting to explain the concept of “omnipresence” to her group of third graders. “God is everywhere,” she explained carefully and cheerfully. “He is in church with us. He is with us when we play, when we sleep and when we eat. “Is God in prison, too?” asked one skeptical little fellow in the third row. “OF COURSE God is in prison, too,” responded a classmate indignantly before the teacher could catch her breath, “except the guys in there just don’t know it!” Sometimes the thought of God being with us can be as frightening as it is at other times comforting. There are times when we yearn to nestle in His loving arms; there are other times when we feel we want to hide from Him and from the anger we imagine Him to harbor against our errant and sinful ways. We read in Genesis 3, for example, how the man and the woman hid from God in the garden, fearing His wrath because they had gone against His will. The Psalmist, however, writes (Psalm 8:4-5): “When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.” The writer, presumably the shepherd David, writing as he tended his sheep and marveled at the starry night sky, clearly felt no threat as he thought about his Maker. He experienced God as a loving God who cares for mankind. It is a beautiful picture, is it not? We are reminded that, though we may try sometimes to hide from God, He is there. He sees us; He reaches down to that very part of us which would separate us from Him ..., and makes it good again, without precondition. He tells us, “Come, let’s go on from here together.” “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” John 3:17

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