Once upon a time, a preacher carefully prepared a sermon. When it came time to preach the sermon, she went to print it off and realized that she wasn't able to open the document. That night, she preached what she could. Here is what she intended to share...
Scripture passages: Psalm 139:1-18//Jeremiah 1:4-10//John 8:21-38
Tonight. In this space. I invite you to take a deep breath. Breath in. And breath out. Let the tension from the day subside.
Tonight. In this space. As we breath in. And breath out. We step out of the hustle and bustle of life. We step out of the fear and anxiety of life. We step in to a time of prayer and a time of reflection.
Tonight. In this space. As we breath in. And breath out. God meets us. God fills us.
As we breath in. And breath out. We think of the One who first breathed life into out being--the One who formed our inward parts, who knit us together in the comfort of our mother’s womb. We think of this One who is with us.
This One who searches us. Who Knows us. Who knows when we sit, when we rise up...
This One who goes with us, to the highest heights and the deepest depths. In the light and in the the darkness...
As we breath in. And breath out. We recall that this One who is with us, knows us. In the deepest way.
This One knows...
how we try to flee from our past,
how we try to flee from being that which we were created to be,
how we try to flee from doing that which we were created to do,
how we try to flee like the prophet Jeremiah, saying we unable, unequipped
And this One, God, knows that when we try to flee, we are really bound, we are really slaves to sin...we cannot really flee on our own. God knows. God cares.
And so God the Father, sent the Son into the world. Because of Jesus Christ, we are not dead in our sins. We are not bound by our sins. We no longer need to try to flee on our own.
Rather, we are freed. Freed to be who God created us to be. To do what God created us to do. So that when we, like Jeremiah, hear God telling us to go, we can go. Knowing that the one who formed us, who knit us together is the one who goes with us. Knowing that the one who formed us, who knit us together, enables and equips us.
Tonight. In this space. Let us take a few moments, in silence, to breath in and to breath out. To dwell in the presence of God. To let the Spirit of God fill us. So that we may go...freed to be who God created us to be and to do what God created us to do.
posted by Pastor Emmy
