The Hope of Overmorrow: Today

Dear People of God,

Gregory Wagenfuhr, member of the ECO Standing Theology Committee, has spoken of time as a difficult thing to live within. In his telling, we are continually ground between two stones: between processing and making sense of the past, and anticipating and planning for the future. Our task as humans is to live between the weight of past experience and the looming shapes and questions of the future.

In this pressure-packed space, it can be very easy to become paralyzed, overwhelmed, discouraged, distracted, or addicted. In the process, we can find ourselves losing our sense of agency, power, and freedom, the things that make us human! We lose our sense of being alive and empowered within our present moment, our “today.”

Into this dilemma, the reign of God the Father, the victory of Jesus, and the filling of the Holy Spirit function together to bring liberty from our captivity and enable us to live powerfully within each successive present moment of our lives.

Ruth is an example of someone who triumphs through this vitality and trusting action within her present. She experiences deep loss and dislocation, yet she ultimately encounters the greatness of God’s purposes as she acts decisively within her present moment—God’s actions meeting her actions!

May we move toward worship this Sunday preparing our hearts to encounter the Lord of Life who has worked, is working, and will work to give us freedom to be and become who we are made and called to be—one “today” at a time!
 
Your servant,
Peter DuMont