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Already Doesn’t

( 7-2-06 )

Deut.31:1-8

Test cannot be started because it

Already does not exist

Some things in life are just hard to make sense out of, like the above statement. There are some things in Holy Scripture that can be just about as cryptic: let go to keep it, die to live, give to get, Faith is believing in something not seeable, man will live even if he dies, etc.

In modern idiom one might say – it does not compute. It has been a week of challenges for many, if not all of you, in one way or another. The challenge to continue onward and upward yet looms ahead. For a time we enter what one might call the sanctuary where we hope for some peace, and rest and rejuvenation.

God has made some promises such as the one to Joshua and the Israelites. (Deut.31:1-8) And Jesus’ own promise to the Apostles. (Mat.28:18-20) Paul conveys this promise of God’s tenacious love when writing to the Roman Church. (Romans 8:37-39) (And we also are fellow recipients of these blessed promises.)

We all have been born into the thread of time, we each have a place in it, and we each must travel in what is our allotted time and space with purpose and intent. The journey will and does leaves its’ marking upon the fabric of our heart and mind and soul but we must not relent from living it. Even as the journey leaves its mark, we too leave ours in our passing.

There is much that we experience, endure and perchance even escape that is written into the thread of our journey and it is ours to grapple with. The challenge is for each of us to not only sustain our own momentum but to draw others onward in theirs. Paul was swept into the following sea of his journey and he shows us much about how to navigate our own course. (Acts 9:15-16; 1Cor.11:21-33) (good example of the potential extended effects of our life upon others Acts 27:13-28:6)

As we travel this life, you and I, it is good for us to be mindful of our destination. It is also good to keep in our heart who it is our life serves; we do not live for ourselves only but for Jesus, His Kingdom, and His people. Because this is true, how we live out our journey becomes vastly important. (2Cor.1:3-7; 2Tim.1:8-12)