This week: God as insecurity. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com . I think we usually want to hear just the opposite - God as security. I don't disagree with that. We read and sing things like 'God is our refuge and our strength..." - all of which is meant to calm our hearts in the middle of the turmoil and uncertainty of our lives. And yet, this week I want to make sure we hear the part about how God's invitation to walk within God's Reign may throw a wretch into our fine plans as to how we will be secure. God as insecurity is the God who breaks into our world as we want it and expect it. God as insecurity shakes us up so that we do not simply lean on the kind of security that we want for ourselves right now and right here. God as insecurity is taking us for a ride and we may not think that this ride is the most secure journey of the day. God as insecurity challenges our vision of how our lives will be held together and what will be the foundation of our lives. We all have this notion of how our world and life should go and what we need to do to secure that notion or vision. Well, God as insecurity does not settle for what we want to create - for there is only one Creator and this God has a vision for life that will not match up with our visions. O God of love and new life, yes we want things our way - and yet, we know that beyond the security we envision for ourselves - which is rarely secure at all - comes the life in which you continue to shape us and bring us into the rest only you can provide. Amen. |
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