Sitting on a rock, in the middle of a river in the southern part of Mexico, I realize God’s calling on my life. Tears are streaming down my face and returning to the rushing falls beneath my feet. It is so simple. Yet it will take every ounce of my being to walk it out. This calling will demand all of me and when there is nothing left if will demand more. What is this mighty calling God has ask of me? What could possible ask that much of a single person? What is it that he wants most? I cry at the simple complexity of what he is asking. Just BE! Be with me. I believe this is the greatest calling of my life.
At my church, we have started picking one word for the year that we want to continually allow God to use as a theme. The word that God and I chose was BE. I need to BE about God’s presence and less about my list of good works. In preparation for the Race, I had completely lost track of my word.
God had to bring me to a little village in Mexico to a river, to help me find my word, my purpose, my calling.
Perched on my rock in the river, I was reminded that God is everywhere. I can’t go anywhere he hasn’t already been. I am discovering it is more about engaging in his presence. Drawing myself near to him wherever I find myself. Everything stems from his presence. The more I am with him the more his Kingdom reigns on earth.
Knowing this does not make it automatically easy. Being can be so hard. It is unnatural to us. We live and breathe the curse that Adam brought upon us, never realizing we no longer are underneath it. It died with Christ. We don’t have to work, work, work,earn, earn earn and do, do, do. We need to just BE. The King knows his kingdom better than anyone. He wants us to be a part. We are his royal sons and daughters, this is our inheritance.
Ephesians 1:9-12 (NASB)
He made known to us the mystery of His will according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fulness of times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things upon the earth. In Him also we have obtained an inheritance having been predestined according to his purpose who works all things after the counsel of his will, to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.
Being allows us to listen and respond. We don’t have to live under the curse anymore. We can just BE.
Romans 6:7-11
The Message
Never again will death have the last word. When Jesus died,he took sin down with him, but alive he brings God down to us. From now on, think of it this way: Sin speaks a dead language that means nothing to you; God speaks your mother tongue, and you hang on every word. You are dead to sin and alive in God. That’s what Jesus did.
No more working, earning and doing to earn my King’s attentoin and love. Just BE!
