Today’s Readings: Psalm 56; Numbers 12:1-16; Luke 23:44-56a; Ephesians 4:7-16; Psalm 10
Having grown up in the Pacific Northwest, I saw a lot of Seattle Seahawk games as a child. It's not something that I'm proud of - just something that I've learned to accept over the years :) Anyway, one thing that fascinated me about their games was the crowd’s propensity to do something called “The Wave”. For those unfamiliar with the concept, “The Wave” looks like a ripple of water that worked itself around the Kingdome. When the ripple reached your section of the stadium, you were expected to stand and raise your arms. Once you do that, you immediately sat down and let the folks in the next section stand up and raise their arms and then sit down. It goes like this - section after section - until “The Wave” has made it around the stadium several times. It was an amazing thing to see over 50,000 people move in perfect rhythm with each another. While they didn’t have “The Wave” back in the First Century, they did have their own sense of what it would be like to move in rhythm with thousand of others. The only difference was that that rhythm wasn’t driven by watching other people in a stadium; their rhythm was driven by something else. That something else was identified by Paul in today’s passage from Ephesians where he wrote: “He handed out gifts of apostle, prophet, evangelist, and pastor-teacher to train Christ’s followers in skilled servant work, working within Christ’s body, the church, until we’re all moving rhythmically and easily with each other, efficient and graceful in response to God’s son, fully mature adults, fully developed within and without, fully alive like Christ” (Ephesians 4:12-13 from The Message). Today, I would ask you to consider what it is in your life that sets the rhythm which you follow. Is it your career, is it your family, is it your hobbies/passion, or is it the God revealed in Jesus Christ? Spend some time observing the rhythm of your day and see what moves you along if you need help answering that question. Til next time…
Having grown up in the Pacific Northwest, I saw a lot of Seattle Seahawk games as a child. It's not something that I'm proud of - just something that I've learned to accept over the years :) Anyway, one thing that fascinated me about their games was the crowd’s propensity to do something called “The Wave”. For those unfamiliar with the concept, “The Wave” looks like a ripple of water that worked itself around the Kingdome. When the ripple reached your section of the stadium, you were expected to stand and raise your arms. Once you do that, you immediately sat down and let the folks in the next section stand up and raise their arms and then sit down. It goes like this - section after section - until “The Wave” has made it around the stadium several times. It was an amazing thing to see over 50,000 people move in perfect rhythm with each another. While they didn’t have “The Wave” back in the First Century, they did have their own sense of what it would be like to move in rhythm with thousand of others. The only difference was that that rhythm wasn’t driven by watching other people in a stadium; their rhythm was driven by something else. That something else was identified by Paul in today’s passage from Ephesians where he wrote: “He handed out gifts of apostle, prophet, evangelist, and pastor-teacher to train Christ’s followers in skilled servant work, working within Christ’s body, the church, until we’re all moving rhythmically and easily with each other, efficient and graceful in response to God’s son, fully mature adults, fully developed within and without, fully alive like Christ” (Ephesians 4:12-13 from The Message). Today, I would ask you to consider what it is in your life that sets the rhythm which you follow. Is it your career, is it your family, is it your hobbies/passion, or is it the God revealed in Jesus Christ? Spend some time observing the rhythm of your day and see what moves you along if you need help answering that question. Til next time…
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