As we are preparing for Church At Home, Vol. 2 there’s a marked stillness and contentment at work in our hearts. We’ve been continually asking ourselves the same question: “God, what are you going to do through this situation?” One the greatest things about church, and one of the most important pieces of God’s design of creation has been put on hold in the way we’re familiar with it. Community. Community is the life of the church. Knowing each other, seeing each other, hearing each other. Laughing together, crying together, seeking the presence of God together. It feels wrong that we can’t do most of those things face-to-face right now, but more than ever it seems that we all agree on how important those things really are. You don’t know what you have until you don’t have it anymore.
God, what are you going to do through this situation?
This question is not a new one. All throughout scripture the people of God wandered and wrestled with their situations, wondering where God was and what He was going to do.
How long must I wrestle with my thoughts
and day after day have sorrow in my heart?
How long will my enemy triumph over me? Psalm 13:2
But there is always a promise of restoration! And with that restoration we’re believing a greater appreciation and a deeper connection within our community and other Christ-centered communities around the world is on the horizon.
Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
but those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:28-31