We Made An Offer

We made an offer on a house yesterday. It is beautiful and over 500 square feet larger than our house in Red Bluff. It is two story with a basement garage and family room. I think we will turn the family room in the basement into our Master Bedroom. This will require installing a whirlpool tub in the half bath that is down there already. Other than the lawn needing to be mowed, not to many other things need to be done. The final paperwork needs to be completed and a good faith payment needs to be made. So in a couple weeks we could be in it!
It seems like things are just clicking along. I must also add that the weather has really been great through this camping adventure. Most days are 80-90 degrees and then it cools off to 60 at night.
Eastern Tennessee is experiencing a drought. I heard on the news that Maynardville (about 10 miles from here) is rationing water. No watering the lawn or washing the car. Offenders will be fined $50.00.
My new job is going well. There is alot to learn and much is expected from someone doing this position. I had a chance to go out and see some of my houses. It was great to interact with the residents. That will definitely be the fun part of what I get to do, then there's the paperwork part. Uggg!
I heard a song by Starfield on the radio yesterday "Filled With You Glory". The lyrics to the chorus: "The whole earth/Is filled with your glory, Lord/Angels and men adore/Creation longs for what's in store (Mountains bow and oceans roar)/May you be /Honored and Glorified/ Exalted and lifted high/Here at Your feet I lay my life"
As I have driven much in the last few weeks and seen alot of country the thought of creation longing (groaning) for what is in store has added another dimension to this journey. Following the fall of man (Adam and Eve in Genesis 3 http://www.ibs.org/niv/passagesearch.php?passage_request=Genesis%203&niv=yes) creation also suffered a great consequence. The ground was cursed. From that very moment, creation began to suffer decay and death. As a result of sin, the earth groans for the day of the Lord. Not only, we as believers, but all creation is anxiously awaits the Lord's return and longs for what's in store. A new Heaven and a New Earth.
Fall is coming and the leaves will soon be turning and from what I hear it is quite a show here in eastern Tennessee. Even though on the surface there is beauty. Inside there is a longing, a groaning. We are all longing until the Lord's return.
In this we have hope, better days are coming! Just as we are about to see the Glory and Beauty of God manifest through His creation, things will change.
Romans 8 paints such a beautiful picture of this :
22We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? 25But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. 26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. 27And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will.
At times isn't it difficult to wait patiently? The other day, I was waiting to be seen by the doctor for a drug test. Once I signed in they said "please wait, we will be with you shortly". Even though I knew what the outcome was going to be, it sure seemed like longly. I know it wasn't all that long, but it was still "wait". The test came back negative, by the way.
While driving (which is the mobile form of waiting) the miles and hours can seem like they just go on forever (especially in Nebraska and Ohio). Finally the day comes and the waiting is over. In my most recent case, after many miles of hoping and trying to be patient, Knoxville came and my groaning was over. In time, our journey, waiting and groaning will be completed on this earth as well. Even so come quickly, Lord Jesus!

Weather today-85 degrees and beautiful.

Now it's time to wait for everything to go through on the house. But right now it's time to go do laundry!

-Norm