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Pentecost 63 Step By Step, From Here to There
Pentecost 63 Step By Step, From Here to There
After I graduated high school I got out on the road hitchhiking. I found work on a dairy farm in the mountains, a soda shop on Cape Cod, cutting trees, bartending, lifeguarding, cooking and eventually ending up in a shipyard in Jacksonville. When you hitchhike, anything that stops, car or truck, has about it the sense of momentary security. Every ride, every new place, every job was a court of rest and discovery in the world’s wilderness. Even though you know it wouldn’t be for long at least you were moving, going somewhere and you were not alone until the driver said, ‘This is where I turn…’ Where you stopped in an unfamiliar place or knew your job was just for a season and you had to leave and you’re alone again. However, it was not a threatening aloneness. There was always something new out there. But they reflect a deeper spiritual reality.
Another sense about that particular period of time in the 40’s and 50’s was the feeling of safety in the process. Even though you were alone on the road it was not full of fear. Lots of people hitchhiked and lots of people picked you up. Sure you had a few speedy drivers and a few a bit looped but you didn’t carry with you a fear of what might happen. The world was different then. I’m not sure anyone realized it but there was an unconscious sense of security and trust. There were general boundaries you knew you didn’t cross and an overall cover that was accepted in the general population. I would hasten now to identify that cover as the Lord’s grace, the ultimate shape of spiritual reality.
It seems these days there are more conscious invisible boundaries, more unresolved anger, less security, no general cover and an increased sense of having to fill every moment to avoid feeling alone. People are looking for safe places for their minds and hearts in a world of increasing conflict, speed, media bombardment and overwhelming technology. Also they are being compelled by the pressure of it all to find more immediate answers to being alone. It is not about life. It’s about the moment. It’s no longer about long-term values but momentary fixes. The secular world and its spirits promise immediate delivery of physical satisfactions for spiritual needs. A recent TV ad showed a man entranced by choices he has in the midst of a multiple display of HDTV’s. The ad concludes what the man really wants in a resonant musical chorus, “I want it all and I want it now.” This is the shape of this world’s temporary reality.
Through the tempter’s ‘I-want-all-now’ noise and mist Jesus calls, “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God. Trust in me also. There are many rooms in my Father's house. If this were not true, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. If I go and do that, I will come back. And I will take you to be with me. Then you will also be where I am (Jn.14:1-3).”
Everyone is looking for a home for the heart, a temple to worship and a special room for experience. Jesus is saying that trusting Him is the door to the many rooms in His Father’s house. He is the gate for the sheep. Through faith in Him Jesus carries us into the spiritual dimension where He has prepared a temple for us to worship Him, His heart. He has for each of us a mansion in which we can relate to Him, His mind. The courts are those in which we can continually experience Him, His qualities.
Ps.48
12 Walk around Zion. Go all around it.
Count its towers.
13 Think carefully about its outer walls.
Just look at how safe it is!
Then you can tell its people that God keeps them safe.
14 This God is our God for ever and ever.
He will be our guide to the very end.
More tomorrow as we move into His reality……..stay tuned
After I graduated high school I got out on the road hitchhiking. I found work on a dairy farm in the mountains, a soda shop on Cape Cod, cutting trees, bartending, lifeguarding, cooking and eventually ending up in a shipyard in Jacksonville. When you hitchhike, anything that stops, car or truck, has about it the sense of momentary security. Every ride, every new place, every job was a court of rest and discovery in the world’s wilderness. Even though you know it wouldn’t be for long at least you were moving, going somewhere and you were not alone until the driver said, ‘This is where I turn…’ Where you stopped in an unfamiliar place or knew your job was just for a season and you had to leave and you’re alone again. However, it was not a threatening aloneness. There was always something new out there. But they reflect a deeper spiritual reality.
Another sense about that particular period of time in the 40’s and 50’s was the feeling of safety in the process. Even though you were alone on the road it was not full of fear. Lots of people hitchhiked and lots of people picked you up. Sure you had a few speedy drivers and a few a bit looped but you didn’t carry with you a fear of what might happen. The world was different then. I’m not sure anyone realized it but there was an unconscious sense of security and trust. There were general boundaries you knew you didn’t cross and an overall cover that was accepted in the general population. I would hasten now to identify that cover as the Lord’s grace, the ultimate shape of spiritual reality.
It seems these days there are more conscious invisible boundaries, more unresolved anger, less security, no general cover and an increased sense of having to fill every moment to avoid feeling alone. People are looking for safe places for their minds and hearts in a world of increasing conflict, speed, media bombardment and overwhelming technology. Also they are being compelled by the pressure of it all to find more immediate answers to being alone. It is not about life. It’s about the moment. It’s no longer about long-term values but momentary fixes. The secular world and its spirits promise immediate delivery of physical satisfactions for spiritual needs. A recent TV ad showed a man entranced by choices he has in the midst of a multiple display of HDTV’s. The ad concludes what the man really wants in a resonant musical chorus, “I want it all and I want it now.” This is the shape of this world’s temporary reality.
Through the tempter’s ‘I-want-all-now’ noise and mist Jesus calls, “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God. Trust in me also. There are many rooms in my Father's house. If this were not true, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. If I go and do that, I will come back. And I will take you to be with me. Then you will also be where I am (Jn.14:1-3).”
Everyone is looking for a home for the heart, a temple to worship and a special room for experience. Jesus is saying that trusting Him is the door to the many rooms in His Father’s house. He is the gate for the sheep. Through faith in Him Jesus carries us into the spiritual dimension where He has prepared a temple for us to worship Him, His heart. He has for each of us a mansion in which we can relate to Him, His mind. The courts are those in which we can continually experience Him, His qualities.
Ps.48
12 Walk around Zion. Go all around it.
Count its towers.
13 Think carefully about its outer walls.
Just look at how safe it is!
Then you can tell its people that God keeps them safe.
14 This God is our God for ever and ever.
He will be our guide to the very end.
More tomorrow as we move into His reality……..stay tuned
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