Being sent

This is a good reminder. Jesus got up in the dark to pray. He got up before the light to be light. How often do I work off my own vapors and fail even to ask for help. Even in ministry I can be idolarous trusting my own strength when there is one better.

I'm not sure how it relates but as an image it has been whirling in mi cabeza as I prepare to head south on Saturday. The image will make its way into a sermon on the 12th. How yet I'm not sure. Basically it flips the image of Hansel and Gretal. To find there way home Hansel and Gretal leave breadcrumbs so that they may retrace their steps. In an experience of late, it was revealed that all my "moments" of God hold an element of homecoming. Those moments I am most aware of God in the Spirit reminds me of coming home.

I wonder if this is the reason we are sent? We seek. We journey. We preach the gospel. We do these things not because of us but, to become delivered into awareness of grace. As Christians we are sent to continue to discover those moments of bread on the journey back home. For us it is not to travel back over the road we have already tread. For Christians it is to travel forward trusting that Our deliverer will bring us further into wholeness; further home.