Future Glory, The Dream...

"This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It's adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike "What's next, Papa?" God's Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who he is, and we know who we are: Father and children. And we know we are going to get what's coming to us—an unbelievable inheritance! We go through exactly what Christ goes through. If we go through the hard times with him, then we're certainly going to go through the good times with him!" Romans 8:15-17 (The Message)

we confrim who we are through who God is, our Father, our Daddy...
we accept the calling, a life of love and serving...
we share the life of Jesus, INTAMCY!!!!!
(it gets better!!!!)

"That's why I don't think there's any comparison between the present hard times and the coming good times. The created world itself can hardly wait for what's coming next. Everything in creation is being more or less held back. God reins it in until both creation and all the creatures are ready and can be released at the same moment into the glorious times ahead. Meanwhile, the joyful anticipation deepens." Romans 8:18-21 (The Message)

in the midst of experiencing life through confirming, accepting, and sharing...
we anticipate what God will do next, grander and more magnifficent than ever before...
we dream of the day that we are fully alive through Christ...

This is the dream...
This is the coming reality...
Are you ready for what God will do...
Are you ready to swim in the deep of God's dream...

"Meanwhile, the joyful anticipation deepens"...

Weiss

A Link in the Chain...

We werent created to journey alone.

If God has given us a mandate to carry on what he has started, then we must carry the torch together.

If we are unified through Christ, then why dont we live life together?
We dont live life in the trenches with each other.

And it worries me...

If we cant experience God together at an intamate level outside of where we meet ("the Church"), then how will we ever learn how to love each other like God has called us to do?

we wont know each other, and we will push each other away, afraid of actually allowing ourselves to be known by the other.

we lose sight of God, because we are to busy trying to tackle life by ourselves, by our own strength.

you are a link in God's chain...
you need us, and we need you...

I need you.

God allows us to be a part of what he is doing.

It's on us...

Weiss