Sermon Sneak Peak: “1. Wedge your foot underneath the tube in front of you. 2. keep your entire paddle engaged in the water, not the tip of it. The whole blade pushes against the water and keeps you in the raft when we’re engaging the water. 3. If I call you to move ‘all in,’ get off the edge and sit on the floor of the raft, putting your paddles straight in the air. If you hear my command to move, move immediately” (The River, Neale, p. 159-160, ubp). Directions. Commands. Ways to be saved. These are part of all aspects of our lives. Seat belts. Laws against drunk driving. Helmets. The purpose is so we will “stay safe” or “stay alive.” God’s goal with all His Words? The author of Hebrews says “Rest” -- not “sleep” but to enter a place where we need not strive to stay alive. It is by listening to His Word that we can enter. What does it look like to “enter” -- to take God at His Word? “Grab your paddle with both hands and raise it as high as you can out of the water. We’ll see your paddle and pull you out.” Perhaps when getting swirled by the currents of life, it means holding firmly to what God has given and letting others pull you out.
Posted on: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:38:30 +0000
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