"Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and
unsearchable things you do not know." (Jeremiah 33:3)
unsearchable things you do not know." (Jeremiah 33:3)
“Prayer”, by Rene Clausen, Concordia Choir
Hi Family!!!
How’s your social distancing
affecting your life so far, especially, for your spiritual distancing with
unseen enemies as well as with Christ? We know Christ redefined our spiritual
distancing with him through his resurrection from the dead as spiritual
intimacy.
At this moment, I feel like we
are becoming experts on physical social distancing to keep safe and healthy
from COVID 19. However, this also helps us to rethink about our spiritual
distancing with our unseen enemies so called sin or any sources of sin. Christ’
resurrection power really boosted our power to resist all those unseen enemies
and gave us a divine wisdom to get away from them. Furthermore, it takes us
much closer to Christ. Thanks be to God!
So, somewhat, we, followers of
Christ Jesus, take this challenging time as our opportunity to simplify our
life by putting first thing first. I mean God in our hearts, the center of our
hearts and our lives first! And we become OC Christians - Obsessive Compulsive
Christians, for the spiritual distancing!
However, that is not all.
Through our OC Christian practices so called safe distancing and washing
against all those unseen spiritual enemies, we move toward the Kingdom of God
eternal much closer every day! Even though it has not been easy and it will not
be easy until the COVID 19 situation is cleared, our never ending steps with
our risen Lord, Christ Jesus, will take us into the place where God wants us to
be!!! Isn’t that wonderful? Yes it is!
And now we are truly looking
forward to getting together again and freely worship, pray, study, share, serve
and grow together. Those days are not far from us as we prepare ourselves for
our new beginnings!
Now, again, I would like to
remind you a few things this week. Until all of the dangers from COVID 19 are
cleared, we will continue to practice our faith to grow deeper and stronger in
the presence of God in truth and spirit. In other words, we will pray
together more, we will sing together more, and we will read the words of God
more, making those our habits as our Christian character.
So let us continue to tithe our
time, our energy, our heart and all other resources that God has given us as we
set aside those for our God first … each and every day as we continue to
celebrate the season of Christ’s resurrection!!!
Sounds like we are wading in
the water with Jesus through gathering online to worship together, to pray
together as well as to meet together. So please keep connected with each other
and with our web site for useful information as you practice your faith daily.
And also don’t forget to communicate with each other through those social media
if possible.
If you have any questions or
prayer concerns, please also don’t hesitate to share with me or through the
office. We will be happy to answer you and include you in our prayer list.
If you’d like to keep it in
private, please just let me know when you share with me. I will love to hear
from you all!
Now we have our prayer list
updated for this week. Let us continue to call upon the name of the Lord as we
continue to celebrate the power of Jesus' resurrection! We will hold the peace
that Jesus brought us fully and receive the Holy Spirit that Jesus sent us with
open hearts looking forward to the next steps!
Be clean and keep your
distance!!
pk
No comments:
Post a Comment