Ordination season is upon us. Every year at District Council, pastors gather and pray over new candidates as their call is publicly affirmed. For me personally, it’s an annual opportunity to re-up, to affirm my commitment to answer the call in every way possible.
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If we spend the whole of our life on our children, what will we have when they test their wings and fly away?
I wonder, would I stand up to an Ahab? Will I tell the truth about God to an unbelieving people? Can I continue to live out God values and commandments in a post-christian culture?
Poor Peter had been living in the matrix effect of his memory; stuck in the repeating script of his failure, but here Jesus was, overwriting his most painful moment with a rich and wonderful new one.
We long for heaven but we remember that God alone appoints our coming and our going. Our days are laid out purposefully in His planner. He has a divine schedule that we aren’t typically privy to.
It’s hard for some to believe that God delights in us, but I’ve been a parent long enough to be convinced of this truth. I delight in my kids. I enjoy their presence, their personality, their affection, their interests, their accomplishments, their perspective. Even when they are being ugly, I’m able to remember who they truly are.
Moses and Jesus alike have compassion on the provoked. And eventually, the beleaguered became the Bride.