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(…Taking the Message With You)
Do you ever feel like you are just muddling through? That is exactly what things look like for the widow of Zarephath (I Kings 17) – muddling through with a “not so happy ending” close at hand. Jesus sees a widow (Mark 12) put a couple of coins in the offering and somehow perceives that she is barely making it too. Where in your life do you feel like you are muddling through?
These places in our lives are the primary places where faith gets discovered and formed. The exact places were we struggle and muddle through are the exact places God’s merciful, active presence can most tangibly be revealed. Not simply by solving all our problems but by being present, walking with us and sustaining us through them. It is in that way that faith and trust and hope in God’s activity gets formed and strengthened. In this way, over time, the loving presence of God finally comes to shine in our lives.
Where in your life do you think God might be ready to show you God’s love, mercy and trustworthiness? I invite you to begin watching precisely there, for what God will do. You might find the same presence of God working as the Widow of Zarephath found.
Lord, I’m ready to watch for your guiding and encouraging presence, especially in this _____________ place in my life. AMEN
Pastor Mitch