Monday, May 19, 2014

Redeemer Devotions for May 19, 2014

Adventures... in Hope - Redeemer Devotions 

The Reign of God as spilling forth. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com .

 

The Reign of God as spilling forth is just like that - a spilling - an uncontrollable spill that disrupts the moment and even the day. I take several precautions when I am at breakfast. I do this because I have been know to spill things. Yes, a gesture take place and the coffee goes over - a move toward one thing on the table topples my breakfast drink. In the next moment, there is a new agenda: clean it up - move - change my clothes - find something else for breakfast. Just that fast, a simple spill changes the content of time. The Reign of God as spilling forth has that power. It may not appear to be quite like that. I would simply suggest that we do not see the impact of its spilling forth. The breakfast drink will ruin my clothes - it will make a mess of the floor - it will mean changing the table cloth. And yet, the Reign of God as spilling forth (and it always is) usually takes place and we simply go about the rest of the day as we would have it for ourselves. So what is this spilling forth and how do we know when it is happening? I like to return to the simple comment, "Come and see." The spilling forth of the Reign of God is happening so come and see. In the middle of yard work - in the middle of quiet time - in the middle of a dispute - in the middle of all and any of the things 'we have to do' - there is the Reign of God dripping onto the life all around us. And yet, it will only disrupt us when we see it dripping. Otherwise the day is run by the other things that spill onto us.

 

O God of love and new life, drench us again with the visions of your Reign. Amen.

 

 

 

 

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