24/4/22 God Who Moves Down
ALL AGE MESSAGE
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The ‘real world’ is not kind to underdogs!
Mary was a young Jewish woman in a Roman empire and pregnant out of wedlock – an underdog!
In her lonely situation she still sings praise for the God who extends mercy.
A God who has good news to the poor and oppressed.
Love and truth always begin in smallness and vulnerability, openness and trust.
The need to have courage and let go and to be changed, is how survival happens even in great danger.
The way of God does not mirror the powers and “Herod’s” of this world. God’s love transforms.
‘Making straight’ means no diversions.
God comes to transform your life in ways that lift burdens, receive this gift.
The disciples come together praying. God comes and blows them away.
Turns them inside out and fills them with life.
The Pentecost story reverses what happened at Babel.
When the festival was over, they went back to their places of origin and took the God of Unity to others.
Following Jesus is not an easy choice. It may require us to make Jesus our ‘Top Priority’ and be willing to give up anything for God.
However it may not be an ‘either’ /’or’ choice but finding a balance in our commitment and making Jesus the foundation of all we are trying to do so we can say “Amen”.
Jesus came into the world as the ‘upside down’ king – his kingdom is not of this world.
To commit to following Jesus is not to go along the pathway of power, authority or prestige.
Rather to relate with humility, through compassion, holding fast to a righteous way of living. The turmoil of the heavens was a sign that a new creation was in the making.
In Christ’s birth God proclaimed that the reality of peace had dawned on earth.
The proclamation of peace is costly…even Jesus and his parents became political refugees in Egypt.
In the struggle for liberation all must be connected and so we need each other.