I come to you from a cubicle far far away. It is my first day in the office of Otter Creek as one of the new youth ministers and it has been so exciting and comforting! I felt a lot of things coming into this day in the office much of which was the unexpected. As a irrelevant side note, don't EVER challenge God with the statement of "expecting the unexpected" unless you are lacking excitement, spontoneity, and have a million and a half prophets in your life. I proposed that statement of arrogance to God exactly a year ago sitting on my dorm bed at Harding University and now I am speaking truth to its product from a cubicle in Otter Creek's church office.
Though in a new location with a new worldview, I am still under the provisions of my main disciple, Luke. Luke approached me about five days ago and presented this thought of Jesus to me. "Then he turned to his disciples and said privately, 'Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. For I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it." So I thought to myself out loud exactly what context that was meant for, but it spoke something personal to me totally out of its original context and into my futuristic corner of the story. I missed it all until now. All the signs, the knowledge, the blessing, the plan. With that said, I am not only excited for what is ahead for myself, but how blessed are those that have spoken truth into my blind life over the years.
God is moving in ways that we, the church, have never seen before and looks to speak in a level that only you can hear and in a volume that only I would understand. In the same coffee session Luke and I had, he also bestowed some grace upon me through this statement of Jesus a little bit before that, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children." I fell in love with this lesson first because it carred such a lack of formality and expectation on who it is that can know of the kingdom of God. Then I fell in love with it for a whole new reason in that I have been those little children over the last six months. I have had to learn how to walk, talk, and receive God in ways that are new to me. With that said, God has been speaking things to me that I have had to learn from scratch and from a wisdom that I have yet to gain. To know that God speaks to the unlikely or the unexpected, bathed me in such grace and renewal towards my intellectual interaction with God.
I am so excited to see how God accelerates this time for the church into a place we have never had the courage to dream. As well to see, how it is that God will continue to interact with his people and community. Well, I am just a bamboo shoot growing a mile a minute; hope to catch you on the next mile!
Laws and Morality question 229
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