3.31.23 - Psalm 68:5-6, 9-10
What are ways you are anticipating God's work in the world and how can you transition from anticipation to participation?
God places lonely people in families. They lead prisoners out of prison into productive lives…
You watered the land with plenty of rain, O God. You refreshed it when your land was exhausted. Your flock settled there. Out of your goodness, O God, you provided for oppressed people.
The way I've grown up hearing passages like this taught is that we must pray and intercede on behalf of the poor, the hungry, the war-torn, for God to make things right and bring the Kin-dom to earth.
What I've come to believe, however, is that the work to manifest the Kin-dom is done by us. That work is our work.
It's directly affected my paradigm around prayer and the way I see my relationship to the Creator. They are the aquifer, we are the permeable rock. The Groundwater becomes a spring when it passes through us.
"Bring peace to the lonely" is now "Give me the patience to learn about the loneliness in others."
"Feed the hungry" is now learning about hunger, voting, donating, and volunteering.
We know the Creator wants to heal the world and I think it's through us that They're bringing change. Are we permeable enough to play our part?
What are ways you are anticipating God's work in the world and how can you transition from anticipation to participation?
-- Katelin Champion
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