Is it not interesting that we are drawn to a community if believers by a need to find a higher power, by the need to find God. We are drawn into the community because of our desire to seek out God and find how he can have significance in our lives. We are usually drawn to the scriptures to study and prayer, to a life that exemplifies the life of Christ. We search with all of our being to be like the one we are seeking after…
But then we join the community and the fire seems to go out of our souls…
We start to read our Bible less and less…
We stop praying all the time…
We lose the connection we fought so hard to get with the God who never stops fighting for us…
What is it that we do to keep our selves intentionally grounded in the Word and in God?
Go to church on Sunday? Take communion weekly? Listen to the Bible being read to us, and only the portions picked by those who devised the Revised Common Lectionary? Is this really keeping us intentionally grounded in God or a ploy used by the Devil to make us think we are being disciples, when we are really no where close to sitting at the feet of Jesus?
We all need a way to be intentional about sitting at Jesus’ feet and learning from our Lord and Savior. We all need a way to keep us grounded in the Word of God. We all need to be reading our Bible daily, not weekly or weakly as the case may be, or just listening to someone read the passages for the week while we gather with the community to do our weekly job of being a christian. Jesus did not come to make us christians, He came to help us see the way to live, to redeem us to the relationship God created us for. He does not want us to live one way Sunday morning and another all week long. He is calling us to a deeper relationship, a discipleship.
We have to be intentional about changing our lives to match what Jesus calls us to be. We have to intentionally enter relationships with others around us that we can trust to keep us grounded in the Word and in God. We need a group of people, that will be there to lift us up in prayer, to read the scriptures with, to hear our confessions and give us absolution, to confess to us to get absolution, to support one another in our daily lives and walk.
Do you have this group? Do you have 2 people who are always there that you can open your soul to? Do you have 2 people that can look at the blackness in your being and still say that God forgives you and loves you and so do I and I will walk with you and journey as we strive to sit at Jesus’ feet and be the disciples that will change the world? Are there 2 people you can call on and meet with weekly, to read and discuss the scripture?
If not I challenge you to find these people. Start a weekly meeting, and read the scripture, pray togehter and open your souls up to each other. Create the relationship that will bind you together and lead you to be the disciples that God has called you to be. This group will guide you into a deeper relationship with your creator that will enliven your life.
I am taking up this callenge and I challenge you to do the same. Relationships take work, and it takes more than 1 day a week. And sometimes you need support. Live in the relationship that Christ has called us to, and do not fear, but know that love will abound.
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