Woah, it has been a sec, hasn’t it? Hello, Hello and welcome back! As some of you know, I am approaching a new season and a new glory. In about a month, I am heading out to be a Gap Year Squad Leader! I am stepping into disciplining around 20 something young people; they are my ministry. Through all the uncertainty and confusion of this time, my spirit and soul are beginning to be lit up with hope and anticipation. I am getting really excited to once again go.
I have been contemplating the unity of the body lately. I am both deeply thankful and deeply grieved when thinking about the body that my N squad created. It was love; it was unity; it was holy, sacred, and pure. A beauty that I am still astounded by and, well, confused about why I got to be a part of it. I am blessed to have walked with N when I did. I am plain grateful that I know what living in purpose and community looks like now. Can you feel and imagine what it’s like? Have you experienced it? And this time around, I get to foster the formation of this new body that I have been given leadership over. With this, I am thrilled that I am not the one responsible for the formation (got no clues bro). But the One who is in charge is love, unity, purity, holy, and sacred. This whole shindig was His idea anyways, and I am standing in trust that He will do it again, usher in another glory.
I have been discouraged that my life hasn’t reflected the same level of “glory” as my time with N squad. I left, heart throbbing, but with so much trust that my life will continue to reflect glory. This has catapulted me into a season of trying to understand glory, because clearly my understanding was lacking and is still not solid. You know how tik tocks say, “famous relative check” or whatever the check may be. I have adopted the saying “do it for His glory, check”. Although I have been anything but perfect in this, I am realizing what it means to walk glory to glory. Glory isn’t a feeling. I’m writing this again for myself, glory isn’t a feeling. It is living in such a way that there is “nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of His face… our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like Him” (2 Corinthians 3:18). This means that His glory can shine through safe and loving moments or lonely and confusing ones. What? I am enthralled by this revelation. And while sitting in a space I know is not the best for me, how do I live this out? I want to be awake in this life, no more coping, no more avoiding. I have the capacity to feel pain and levity at the same time because I am whole. Let His glory shine. It can shine through it all, whoa.
Expectations aside, I believe that glory will be ever present in our C squad body. I want to live out of the promise that from glory to glory is in the seasons wealthy in joy and happiness and the seasons that are confused and dry. Lord continue to remove the veil. Thank you for creating a new body filled with glory. “The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one” (John 17:22). Unity of body is created by soaking in the glory of God. This can be through worship, reflection, working in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, ect. Hello, revelation, is that you?
To me, it seems like a funky time to fundraise. But, fundraise I must. I need to raise $5,000 to be able to sustain life while I am following the Spirit’s lead. I believe that it is just so vital for young adults to understand their identity and purpose in this wild world.
I’d love to gain further understanding in this area, let’s talk about it!
1 Corinthians 10:31
2 Corinthians 3:16-18
John 17:22
