More about this God who is over all things and for us at all times - again from Walter Brueggemann.
This father-God to whom we pray "our father" rides the clouds not as a joy rider, but rather to be in a position to see and to know and to care and to intervene and to feed and to heal and to forgive and to reconcile and to liberate. It turns out that ascension, whereby God is celebrated in power, is a claim that the earth is ordered differently because of the one who governs it.
Under this Reign "the earth is ordered differently." We begin to see the order of that Reign when we listen to the voices of scripture that serve to call us to a new way to build an order in life that makes sure of the welfare of all of God's people. This is an order in which those without bread, health care, shelter, and a time and place to bring about some re-creation will be brought into a life of abundant care and a life-giving nourishment. Our God who is poetically placed above us, is, by that imaginative placement, completely available to all in all times. Now, it is to those who know such a God that we are invited to walk within that order of a new creation. It is not going to look like the world we see around us - a world that is based on a hierarchy of worth. Rather, this "father-God" will be the one who liberates all and sets us all on a common ground so that we will see each other face to face and begin to treat one another as the beloved of God - all one people.
Connection: Based on the love of God for all of us, how will you day be ordered? What will be the path you upon which you will walk? How will God's presence be seen among us within the order we follow?
Lord of New Life, we come again and again into your presence and we ask that your will be done among us. We ask that by the power of your Spirit, our live will dance within the order of your life-giving power for all. Amen.
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