The Reign of God as a pathway . If you have any comments adebelak@redeemerluth.com . The Reign of God as a pathway shows movement. It is not right here. It also is there - down the road - around the corner - over the hill. The Reign of God as a pathway makes its way through strange place and into the midst of strange people. In fact, in those places and among those people, I may be the strange one. Too often, religious type folks like to think that we have arrived - this is it - nothing else can be the way it is to be. And then, our eyes are open. We may see that the place and life in which we live is really not the incarnation of the vision of God's Reign. We may also see that the life of the 'other' can be more like the way of life we hope we would live. The Reign of God as a pathway takes us beyond the places in which we find ourselves and the places we find to be just as we think life should be. For when we are so set in this place of our own, it becomes the place that takes on the character of so much of that which is not the Reign of God. When we do keep moving along the pathway, it is easy to become suspicious of others, afraid of what might come next, fixated on preserving our own lives over and against others. The Reign of God as a pathway, leads us into the possibility of life filled with that which is not yet known and that which may enhance our lives more than we ever expected. O God of love and new life, let your Spirit take us down the pathway of your Reign so we might begin to see more and more of your glory. Amen. |
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