Poured Out

It's Monday after the most beautiful and hopeful Sunday of the year.  Easter has come, and we are reminded of and refilled with God's new life through Jesus and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon creation.

Life is good.

Without this reminder and this opportunity to be filled once again, I think we simply march on according to the way things have always been, and we continue to run low on redemption and new life.

So this morning begins another big week for us at Horizons as we confirm students who are professing their own faith and as we affirm several new adult professions of faith though baptism.

It's easy to keep going along the same rhythms of tasks, completions, fixes, and accomplishments.  But I want to keep asking myself this morning:  how does the pouring out of all of yesterday's good news flood into the today?

Maybe it means that we keep pouring our hearts out as well, knowing we have been given enough.  Maybe it also means pouring out our hearts, not to accomplish or complete or solve or improve anything, but simply in order to keep honoring God and receiving new life from God as we deplete ourselves.

It sounds both enticing and risky, but God reminds us in Ecclesiastes (I'm making applications here) that there is a time for pouring out like crazy, and time for being poured into like crazy by God.

So today, as we continue to pour our hearts out for a living God who has invited us to build HIS kingdom, let us trust that God will also continue to pour out into us
, and that He is not really a fan of seeing his creation stalled out on the side of the road because they ran out of fuel.  God keeps his tanks filled enough for the journey.

More to come!


Jason <><