Unpacking the Word

Today, the Spirit calls us to glow brighter, to show greater love through concrete, corporeal actions. The Lord wants to heal our wounded hearts, to be our rearguard. The remedy, as always, is to live more like Jesus.

This week the Spirit is challenging us to consider whether we are part of the remnant at the core of the restoration or if we are standing in its way.

When the “great light,” Jesus the Messiah, came to restore Israel, he began the restoration right where it all first fell apart. When you look back over your life and notice the moments of spiritual unfaithfulness that we all have, where does it all start to fall apart for you? Perhaps that is just the place where the Lord wants to begin restoring you.

The Spirit invites us to be servants of the Lord “through whom I show my glory.”