Lethargy is the real enemy of every hope. God on the move
We can go there. We can do that. We are allowed to jump in and go for it. We do
not need to be in control before we take God's promises to heart and live and die
by them. This does not mean we through our God-gifted reason and insight and gifts
to the wind and leap before looking. Then again, I really do think we take our reason
and insight and gifts and toss them into the wind that is the Spirit of God who
lifts it all up and brings us down in a place and time that we are able to see anew.
The wind is part of the God on the move - always pulling us to the boundary and
then beyond - always opening our eyes to see what we thought we should not see -
always introducing us to Eunuchs along the road and we were always told not to
deal with those folks.
God on the move offers us the promise of rest but this rest is not the kind of rest
that draws us into a premature death - a death of indifference. Rather, this God
moves us and enlivens us all the way through death so that even the power of death
that often causes us to shut down will not be the last word within the hopefulness
of God's Reign. God on the move invites us to say what Herb Brokering used to say
to our class: And then.
O God of love and new life, bring it on - all of it. Amen.
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