As Christians, we celebrate the ascended and exalted Christ, who now sits at the right hand of the Father.
Sometimes it takes a long season in the wilderness to learn the difference between one’s importance and their worth.
When you are doing your best to follow Jesus and it feels like you are exiled from your life, you are not being punished. You are being prepared.
When the will of God is not carried out according to the ways of God, it leads to the wilderness of God.
This is how we get from Plan B back to Plan A: surrender.
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Plan A is always more creative, always more costly, always more risky, and always more faith-full.
The final test of our faith is the answer to the question: “Where (or in whom) do we put our trust?”
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Jesus doesn’t say apart from him, we can’t do religious things very well. He says apart from him, we can do nothing.
The power of a good poem is never the metaphor, but the message the metaphor leads you to.
