For: The Essentials Formation Online Worship Values Course with Dan Wilt
This last week was a little overwhelming, not so much from a family emergency but from God really speaking a lot to me in a short period of time. I would start to connect things but quickly get overwhelmed with the amount of revelation. I found myself making a comment that I couldn’t quite get my arms around everything and that it would be better to come at it from the other side, to enjoy the immersion in something that was far bigger than myself.
This week, the elemental life part was water . Water does indeed seek out and run to the lowest part. Water is about living in Christian community and receiving care and encouragement when we are down and giving care and encouragement to others, at other times. This idea from class is pretty fundamental to life in the Body of Christ. This says that Christianity is not something we can do alone. This says that life is not something we can do alone, at least not very well.
On Palm Sunday, Pastor Thomas Gardner spoke on Mercy. He gave a vivid, Biblical description of the ancient Mercy Seat. He said Mercy flows downward, from the King to the lowest and humblest person in the kingdom. Mercy moves from the living to the dry bones. Mercy brings life to what was desolate and dead. Mercy is just like water flowing to the lowest places in people’s lives.
Water has an absolute source. Mercy has an absolute source. We may be the ones who God’s mercy comes through but in the end, it is God’s mercy that meets people. Pastor Thom said Mercy has a name. Mercy is the name of our God. The mercy that we’ve been shown enables and compels us to be merciful to other people.
Give and receive….
