This week: God as "O My God". If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com. This is not the meaningless and ever-present OMG - although I might have to say that it surely can be that when that exclamation is authentic. God as "O my God" shakes the floor and makes us pay attention to what is taking place. Within God's Reign - people are being forgiven and brought home and it is truly shaking up those now welcome and those who do not want them to be forgiven and brought home. God as "O my God" is the movement of God's Spirit that does not let everything keep spinning as it has been. It is the realization that the life we so easily enter everyday often denies and ignores the peaceable Reign of our God so that things can stay as they are. Our only response to seeing these two things side-by-side is to say "O my God.' It is as though a secret is revealed and now everything may change. Quite like saying, 'How the hell did I get here?" Too often, the powers of hell and brokenness have been able to win us over and therefore when we see the healing wholeness within the promise of God's Reign - we simply say "O my God." O God of love and new life, we long to see your Reign among us but we are not often for the surprising way that it cracks open the day. Help us to greet the day with open hands of welcome. Amen. |
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