Summer is here! For many, it is a time for slowing down and resting. Taking stock. Thinking over how our life has been and where it is going. It’s a time for fresh simplicity. And in the midst of this, the possibility of a new profundity.
So I’d like us to pause and think together about the quality of our life. What you mean to God. How it is that God would express and manifest Himself through you. And in this quest, we begin with our humanity.
Humanity that is like a summer rose. Full of beauty. Fragrance. Delicate and fragile yet able to weather the storm. Humanity that grows, buds, blossoms and then fades. But for a season capable of bringing so much joy and delight and happiness.
And this is how we are crafted. Called to be fashioned and honed and shaped into the likeness of Jesus Christ. To be rooted in the knowledge of God testified to in Scripture and to be expressive of that perfect life after which we are patterned and empowered.
Our season is so short. But the potential is so huge. Nourished in the power of God’s Word and irrigated by the living waters of the Holy Spirit, poured out upon the church by the Risen and Exalted Christ whose life has been vindicated by God.
Yet in this short season prepared for something more. Becoming participators in the Divine Nature. Anchored into eternal life through longing and yearning and wanting and serving and pursuing the expression of what we hope for in Him.
So reflect on these things. And find fresh fragrance and bountiful beauty arise from within you, as you commune with the One who is the key to the Cosmos. As you delight in the wonder of what God has made in and through Jesus Christ.
So I’d like us to pause and think together about the quality of our life. What you mean to God. How it is that God would express and manifest Himself through you. And in this quest, we begin with our humanity.
Humanity that is like a summer rose. Full of beauty. Fragrance. Delicate and fragile yet able to weather the storm. Humanity that grows, buds, blossoms and then fades. But for a season capable of bringing so much joy and delight and happiness.
And this is how we are crafted. Called to be fashioned and honed and shaped into the likeness of Jesus Christ. To be rooted in the knowledge of God testified to in Scripture and to be expressive of that perfect life after which we are patterned and empowered.
Our season is so short. But the potential is so huge. Nourished in the power of God’s Word and irrigated by the living waters of the Holy Spirit, poured out upon the church by the Risen and Exalted Christ whose life has been vindicated by God.
Yet in this short season prepared for something more. Becoming participators in the Divine Nature. Anchored into eternal life through longing and yearning and wanting and serving and pursuing the expression of what we hope for in Him.
So reflect on these things. And find fresh fragrance and bountiful beauty arise from within you, as you commune with the One who is the key to the Cosmos. As you delight in the wonder of what God has made in and through Jesus Christ.
