Scripture: Isaiah 43:19
Be alert, be present. I’m about to do something brand-new. It’s bursting out! Don’t you see it? There it is! I’m making a road through the desert, rivers in the badlands.
Thought for the Day: I referenced Albert Einstein in this coming Sunday’s Sermon Reflections, but in my research, I stumbled across another quote that has been rattling round in my head ever since. Einstein said, “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” I know Einstein was not talking about the church, but his words punch the church in the gut. As the church, we are very good at demonstrating over and over again why something will not work, yet with every attempt, we remind people how it worked brilliantly that one time in the spring of 1971. We make those kinds of pronouncements like a guy with a dozen pairs of 1980’s parachute pants in his closet…still holding on with the expectation that parachute pants are making their return any day now. I’ve been known to be wrong, but it’s probably time to pack up the MC Hammer look. The church of today and tomorrow will require the same decision, as painful as it might be for some. We have so many old items tucked into our ecclesiological closet that will not make a come back, yet they are taking up room and keeping us from bringing in the fresh things God is doing. I won’t be naive and suggest this will be easy, but if you and I desire to be participants in what God is and will be doing, then it is time to make a visit to the spiritual resale shop…though don’t be surprised when they don’t want the old stuff either.
Prayer: Give me the courage, Lord, to make room for what you are doing in the world today. What was does not necessarily fit with what is, so assist me as I relinquish those things that keep me from embracing the new thing that is bursting forth from you. Amen.
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