life you have desired
Sunday February 15th, 2 Kings 2: Elisha replied, "I swear by the living LORD and by
your own life that I will stay with you no matter what!" And he went with
Elijah to Bethel. 3 A group of prophets who lived
there asked Elisha, "Do you know that today the LORD is going to take away
your master?" "Yes, I do," Elisha answered. "But
don't remind me of it." Change
comes hard. Sometimes we just want to
bury our head in the sand and pretend it isn’t going to happen, at least not to
us. Sometimes even when God wants to
bring about change in our lives, we want to bury our head in the sand and
pretend that it won’t happen, at least not now.
It just seems easier to go on as we have always done, in our minds. We hear it in, but we never sing the old
songs anymore, confirmation was not like that when I grew up, why do we now allow
children to take communion? These are
all statements about keeping the church for me and not opening it up to them,
even if they are my children and grandchildren. These statements are all about
staying on the mountain top in the booths rather than coming down into the
dusty streets or heading toward the crosses in Jerusalem. What God wants to bring into our lives is
what we were destined for from the time of our birth, a relationship with God
the creator, a relationship with one another, and a relationship with the
creation from which we were formed.
Change doesn’t come easy, but if God is leading, it will bring you down
the mountain and back to the life you have desired all along.
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