Oh what a journey this continues to be!
Seth Barnes recently wrote a quick blog about our journeys (read it here) and I’ve been stuck on that thought lately. If you follow me, you know I blog mostly in the summers for the current trip that I’m participating on, but recently I’ve needed to process out loud this current stretch of my journey.
I’d have to classify this current stretch as a true roller coaster.
(And you know this nascar fan is inserting Dale Earnhardt’s coaster.)
On the verge – that seems to be where everything is sitting these days. That feeling you get as the coaster is inching up that steep incline. Tension. Excitement. Uncertainty.
The cause? Not knowing. The unknown – its what makes our stomachs churn.
Mark 4:1 talks about how the crowds that were following Jesus around were so eager:
“Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water’s edge.”
I get a picture of them crowded, huddled right up on the edge wanting so badly to grasp what he was teaching them – they were on the verge of getting it.
I was at CharlotteONE last night and David Hickman was speaking about “moving in” to the lives we’re already leading. Taking advantage of our true identities – Christ, the light of the world, the hope for the nations, the answer to it all – living in us. ALIVE IN US. Flipping that switch to on so that we can awaken a catalyst for the one and only way to freedom and life for our neighbors and our friends. Listening to David’s words made me conclude that I was in zombie mode. There are so many parts of my daily life I haven’t moved into, I’m not awake to and I’m operating in sleep mode.
I’m still on the verge inching closer to that edge – waiting, listening, seeking – but there’s one thing that is not unknown – Christ is ALIVE and He lives in me. I’m moving in…
