We began our new series Sunday entitled ONE. The tag line to this series is that you and I were never meant to be little kings and queens ruling our tiny little kingdom of ONE. As our band so beautifully rocked for us on Sunday, "we were meant to live for so much more." This desire to be part of something bigger and more profound than our own existence was instilled in us by God. Unfortunately, we often settle to live within our own little kingdoms and never experience the transcendent life that God offers. What holds you back from pursuing more in your life? Why do we tend to settle for less when God offers us so much more?
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This is really the quintessential question regarding spiritual formation in the first place isn't it? If we can answer this one, and then actually act on it to correct the hindrances, there's really no limit is there?
I think there is on some level, an underlying fear of what may or may not happen if we give up control of our lives to God: to use the Latin: totus tuus ego sum (all that I am is yours). What happens? Do we share in the sufferings of Christ at an entirely new level in this pursuit? What do we have to give up? What pain will we experience? Will our material lives be better or worse?
Fear and uncertainty paralyze us, paralyze me, despite our knowing that God will work all things to the good. The most perfect example I can see in a corporate setting is the nation of Israel before the Red Sea.
Hmmm...I think I would have had to phrase the question differently. Not "what holds us back", but "what inspires us to be more".
I think that the biggest thing that spurs us on to more is knowing that there really is more. Our lives matter. We have purpose.
There is something amazing and powerful about the bright and beautiful Imago Dei in each of us making the kingdom of earth more like the kingdom of heaven every day in a thousand tiny ways.
The cool thing is that it isn't a solo process. Our lives intersect and connect, and somehow those every day interactions make the kingdom of God live and grow.
And that is definitely more.
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