So…it’s Monday morning in North America and I’m at work… but thoughts keep running through my mind about next steps. Taking the next step to self discovery, a new hobby, cleaning my closet, organizing my garage and the list is endless. Lord knows my mind needs to be de-cluttered too! So much useless information in this cranium that I am easily distracted, hence this post while I am at work and should be doing countless other things.
Really, yesterday’s teaching was about next steps. What is the next step God is calling me to complete? Having a heart that just accepts is not so easy…without pause or question… now that takes work and with so many distractions, calming my mind to listen to his direction on those next steps can be rather difficult. Something inside me does come to the forefront of my mind when I am on my ride to work, praising with worship songs on the radio, blessing every driver on the road to their destination and that’s people. The hurting world that does not see or feel hope but get sucked into the news and the tragedies happening all over the world daily. How can there be a God with such evil and prejudice? How can there be a God with illness and a young teen dying while in school?
Then I remember Jesus said, “there will be troubles in this world but remember that I have already conquered the world,” and that brings me peace and purpose. I don’t want my co-worker to be hopeless, the woman who has come to my house (a stranger) sharing the loss of her husband with me or the mother who has buried her son because a shooter who was a fellow student felt hopeless and thought to hurt others. The question isn’t why…the question is when.
When do we get so sick and tired that we become the love the world desperately needs. Cuz isn’t that what Jesus is… love. The greatest of these is love… for I so loved the world that I gave my only begotten son. Love! Reckless love, insatiable love, unforgettable love, beautiful love… we are love.
Not for ourselves, for our own gains, our selfish motives…but because in our hearts we feel sad. Sad for the lost, the suffering, the poor, the desolate, the broken-hearted. Compassion and empathy for things we simply cannot understand but we can feel..or maybe you are the one experiencing sorrow.
I want to be love. But I cannot do this alone, there is no light switch I can turn on, I’ve tried to be “holy” but it didn’t work. Today it’s Jesus. The way, the truth and the life! Jesus…and as long as I stay focused on him, I am the light. The lamp stand he has called Christians to be. So today I choose to spend more time with Jesus, to quiet my mind with Jesus, asking for his help with that. He is my next step.
Immeasurably More 