close the gap

It’s time to start closing the gap.

The gap between what I say I believe and what I actually experience in the “real world.” The gap between the God I experience on a Sunday morning and the God that I experience at my work place.

The gap, what is it? It is the space between who God really is and what our experience of that reality is. Some of us experience the gap in our prayer life, some in our relationships with others, some in sharing our faith with pre-Christians, some it is with our fear.

The point is this we have all these gaps, we don’t actually know it or see it and so we don’t seek to close them.

May we get really uncomfortable with the gaps. May we not be comfortable with saying Jesus is the only sources of life but not actually ever sharing that reality with those around us who don’t know that.

May we not be comfortable with worshiping “The Prince of Peace” on Sunday and worrying ourselves silly the rest of the week.

It’s time to feel the gap, to get really uncomfortable with the gap, get desperate enough that we willing are to do the “work” (anything of value requires it) to make what we say is real and how we live to line up.

It will be a process, so get comfortable with the journey, but whatever you do, don’t get comfortable with the gaps.

Doing what the Father is doing

“Doing what the Father is doing.” This is becoming more and more the focus to my life these days and it’s beginning to bear fruit. By fruit I mean there is a smile on my face more often, there is less weight on my shoulders, my heart is softer to God’s presence, I am desiring God’s will more fully, my relationships are entering greater unity and peace…

Funny how something so simple can be so significant.

What would it be like to live in a way that we are literally doing what the Father is doing, saying what the Father is saying, going where the Father is going? Not just every once in a while but on a consistent basis. Does it sound good? It depends, right? What does it mean to do what the Father’s doing?

You can’t package or label what this looks like, it is vast, great and limitless. What is the Father doing?

Praying for for a stranger because you sense the wind of heaven on it, catching a movie with a friend, or shutting the t.v. off and going on a walk, or leaving an extra tip for the barista, or staying late at small group, calling a family member out of the blue, having a neighbor over for dinner, reading a book that jumps out at you. Are you getting the idea, it is vast, it is broad, there is no limiting what the Father is doing, but there are certainly those times when we choose to be aware and we actually step into what the Father is doing, seemingly “normal” things take on a whole other level of grace.

I want my year this year to be full, and I mean full of what the Father is doing. I have seen what days, weeks, and months look like when they are full of what “I am doing” disconnected from what He is doing.

Father, teach us to see, teach us to hear and teach us to have the courage to do what you are doing because that is where life is, that is where you are and given those two elements nothing else really matters.

Good day -