Finding Momentum

Cling­ing onto the following:

The sim­plic­ity of the G-spel:

It’s sim­ple, isn’t it?

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trans­gres­sions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)… — Eph­esians 2:5–7

It’s beau­ti­ful.

Shreds of inde­fati­ga­ble faith

I don’t know where it all comes from, but a frac­tion of me knows You Love (me you them) even when I don’t know who I am any­more (even when I want to give up on you, even when I want to drop this all and run).

The per­son of Jesus

Son of God. Polit­i­cal rev­o­lu­tion­ary. Light-bringer, hypocrisy-exposer. Rabbi, teacher, leader. Sav­ior, super­hero, tat­tered ser­vant. Mir­a­cle worker, wounded healer. King, king, king.

Hope

In heaven: 

…we our­selves, who have the first­fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adop­tion as sons, the redemp­tion of our bod­ies. For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. — Romans 8:23b-25

That keeps me going. Dad, I just want to know you. When we meet, I antic­i­pate being slack-jawed, wide-eyed, stunned, and speech­less. My heart will race, my throat will be dry, I’ll be deliri­ously happy and breathless.

In the Church: 

(I use the term “Church” refer­ring to “we rag­tag band of Jesus-followers.”)

For we are His work­man­ship, cre­ated in Christ Jesus for good works, which God pre­pared before­hand so that we would walk in them. - Eph­esians 2:10

Maybe I’m a lit­tle too quick to give up on us. Maybe the church can be the voice of hope to the poor, bro­ken, and bro­ken­hearted in this world. Maybe the church will wake up from its slum­ber of mate­ri­al­ism and learn to give self­lessly. Maybe the church will stop think­ing about its own needs and start won­der­ing how it can meet the needs of oth­ers. Maybe by mov­ing for­ward in action, we’ll be changed and enthralled and delighted by the joy given to us by the Father.

Maybe the church will get an infu­sion of the Father’s DNA. Maybe, just maybe.