Under his Majesty!

God will not quit until all of us is transformed by his grace and his love. That means that every part of us will have to go through the process of reforming under the Majesty of God. This sounds all good except that the process of placing all of our lives under his Sovereignty and Majesty means desserts, valleys, mirrors, and even death.

The story of Moses is that story. Remember Moses key issue that God was constantly trying to bring under his grace and Majesty? It was his anger. Thing is, that it wasn't that Moses anger wasn't righteous. It was. It was how he acted on it. Our first glimpse of it was Moses as a prince of Egypt with a growing awareness of the injustice his people were enduring under the rule of the Egyptions. It erupted one day and the result was a dead Egyption, his own people's distrust of Moses, and his exile.

It was righteous, it just wasn't right. Moses anger had not come under the Majesty of God and he took vengeance into his own hands. But God took Moses on a journey of redemption. A journey of 40 years in the dessert. Even still Moses had not surrendered that area. He gave selflessly like no other figure in the bible minus Jesus. But he still held onto his anger. It is witnessed when his people complaining for water and wishing they were back in Egypt was met by a gracious God but an angry Moses. God asked Moses to speak to the rock and to tell it to produce water but instead out of his Anger Moses strikes the rock. And not just one time but two.

It was actually this act of anger that cost Moses the most. It was this act of anger that cost him the promised land. Moses people saw it but he didn't. This might seem very unfair. Is it. God makes no false declarations. He is after our hearts. Not just part of our hearts but all of our hearts. It means the surrender of all of our life to him.

Sojourners Of The Weird

Did you know if you look up the definition of weird in the dictionary it would say, "involving or suggesting the supernatural; unearthly or uncanny"? Have you ever had someone pop into your mind and felt led to call them or text them to find out they were struggling with something or had you on their mind as well? Weird! Have you ever thought about someone not usually on your mind and then bump into them a day or two later? Weird!!

I sometimes fail to realize the density of the weird though. I can tell you that weird happens to me all the time but if you asked me to give you an example I would have trouble putting my finger on one or two instances. Why is that? Because I don't realize how spiritually dense, how much of the supernatural is packed into the seemingly small weird moments.

Being a Christian means getting very comfortable and even excited about the weird. It means looking for the weird. It means speaking the weird and exploring the weird with others. It means stopping every day and asking God what the weird moments were in the day. It means sounding weird to others. Those who do not know Christ see weird as just that weird never even considering they had experienced a God moment. To them our reality is frightening to them. Think about it. If I told you I prayed for you and because I hear this voice in my head telling me to, you would consider me weird. And according to the definition of weird you would be right.

What if as GraceRiver and even beyond we decided to stop every day this week to look for the weird? What if we decided to realize the density of weird moments and become aware of the supernatural power of Christ intersecting our mundane existence sparking life all around us? What if we became sojourners of the weird this week. Think of one weird friend you can talk to about the weird happenings of your week and celebrate a God who shows up all around us.

And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. - 2 Corinthians 3:18