Blind Curves Ahead
Based on Exodus 3:1-15
God never calls us to a purely private relationship with Jesus or to engage the brokenness of the culture without God being with us. But to keep them integrated.
Even when we have chosen to be on the road trusting in Jesus there are times when there is a curve ahead and the road just disappears from sight. We may ask, what are we to be about now? Why doesn't God give me a burning bush and tell me what to do?
God can and does still speaks to us through different versions of a burning bush but when it comes to knowing what we're really to be about, we don't need a burning bush, we can look at Scripture--be it Moses, the prophets, Paul or Jesus , they all seem to put it the most succinctly: love the Lord your God with all your heart soul strength and mind and your neighbor as yourself.
What that tangibly looks like in each of our lives will look different. That is God’s creativity at work. And God uses it all. The amazing thing is that when we live in an empire that has lost what it means to be human and employs tools of fear, corruption, hate, force, lies, division that may seem all powerful, --then, simply being the humans God calls us to be, knowing God, knowing God is with us, and seeking the welfare of the community, surprisingly has far more impact than we know.
Will you be one who trusts? Will we be a community, that embraces the invitation to know God more and to be holy troublemakers disrupting the ways of the Empire, defending the poor, questioning lies and rhetoric, speaking truth in love, loving our neighbor and living as Jesus leads?
-James B Notkin | 07/06/25