Creating God,
you gather us in this place to worship you...
“If our work does truly matter to God, where in worship can we authentically bring it and offer it up as thanksgiving and as petition? If God equips us and calls us to do our work, where are we hearing from God about how to live into it fully, participating as Image-bearers and those who are gathered and scattered to serve?”
—Kathryn Ritsema Roelofs, “Reconnecting Labor and Liturgy,” © August 2022, ReformedWorship.org, CC BY-NC-SA.
Creating God,
you gather us in this place to worship you...
Our faith journeys include high and low points. If that was true for the Israelites and true for Christ, why should we expect anything different? Let’s not be surprised by the wilderness, but embrace it as a time of preparation for service, a time in which we are formed as Christ’s servants and our callings clarified. This Lent, let’s embrace the wilderness—the uncertain aspects of our lives and our faith journeys—and wait expectantly for God’s call.
Where did your Christian ministry journey begin? Perhaps through a series of life events you experienced a certain tug in your heart that seemed to be more than a human emotion, but a sense of God’s special call upon your life…As you reflect upon your unique path to Christian ministry you will most likely recall people and events which have been part of the fore-knowledge of your ministry designer. Pause for a moment and give God thanks for these people. If they are still living let them know how God used them in your life.
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