The Reign of God as spilling forth. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com . The Reign of God as spilling forth may have already taken place in your life today - maybe over and over again. Whatever makes us think about the wonder of God's creation and the place of unrelenting forgiveness and mercy and the simple act of giving ourselves up for the well-being of another, are moments when God's Reign is being sprinkled or dumped on us. We are then left with a way to enter that Reign within the shape of our own lives. The Reign of God as spilling forth transforms me and you. When we are transformed, we are not transformed to be just like everyone else. That Spirit of God's Reign changes each of us - making me into the me who has been grasped by the love of God. That will look both similar and yet quite different from how your are grasped. Yes, we may all be drenched by the love of God's Reign but we will take that love and it will drip off of us onto those around us in different ways. That is the beauty of the Reign of God - we remain God's beloved. We do not have to fit into a mold to make it. Our lives - our gifts - our ways of being human, become the building blocks of God's Reign showing itself to the world. The Reign of God as spilling forth is the simple notion that we will each need to deal with how this spill will open us up to the new life - the new character - handed to us by God. O God of love and new life, when you drench us with your spirit of life, remind us that it is the beginning of how our light will shine out to the world.. Amen. |
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