Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Redeemer Devotions for February 5, 2013

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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