Getting a Leg Up!

Man... I loved what Scott Hofert had to say yesterday in week 3 of Watershed's Originality of the Heart series. I'm so performance oriented in my own life and thinking. Often find myself identifying my life with God under the parameters of reaching certain benchmarks of spirituality. You know, the sort of thinking that says, "If only I can excel in a certain practice, if only I can acquire a certain level of piety or knowledge or success THEN,..somehow, I will be more acceptable or worthy of God's love or blessing in my life." How jacked up is this thinking?! This is the equivalent of me as a parent withholding or releasing love and provision for Sulley and Jyoti based on how well they paint inside the lines of my expectations. That's not a relationship and it certainly is not indicative of love that the scriptures speak of or the sort of love our hearts and souls desperately need.

I love Scott's observation that as human beings created in the image of God, we have been designed to progress, move, shift and be called from where we are into the future. I especially liked his assessment of this progression and movement being central to the life Jesus invites us to live and central to a life lived in relationship with God through his son. GREAT STUFF.

This week, we will be taking on step deeper into the conversation. If you been present in Transit, you've probably noticed we've been centering much of our discussion in one of Paul's letters. Specifically the letter he penned to a community of Jesus followers in the city of Ephesus. I'm really looking forward to the discussion on Sunday. I think one of the central questions that surfaces once change or progression is experienced is the question, "What do I do now?" In other words, given the movement from inactivity to activity in my life, given the trek from purposelessness to purposeful ways of thinking and living, given the movement from death or stagnation to a life that is full of live and vitality, given all of THIS..., "What's next?"

I look forward to exploring this question on Sunday. If you are interested in getting a leg up on the roads I will traveling down, feel free to do a cursory reading of Ephesians 3 and Matthew 5, 6, and 7. Inclusive of this weekends talk will be the topics of justice and mercy too. Justice is something that we value deeply at Watershed. It's one of our core values and part of our DNA, so much so that it drives much of of the decisions about who we are, how we see our community and how we leverage our time, energy and resources at Watershed. If you've never read Watersheds explanation/musings for this particular area, I would invite you to do so at this link. JusticeBlog // Watershed

See you Sunday.