It has officially been a full week since we have moved to Bloomington/Ellettsville. Actually we didn’t arrive in our new home until later in the day, but it has been 7 days. Anyway, this has been the first full week since I’ve ‘officially’ started. It has been a very busy week. My first day, Monday, consisted of meetings, meetings and more meetings. Tuesday was about the same. I must confess that I am getting anxious to start interacting with the students.
There a lot of ideas and dreams I have for the youth ministry program, and I truly believe, if they are God’s will, that they will come to pass. God has blessed this congregation with many resources and energetic members eager to volunteer. I think when the summer schedule is over and I can establish a real routine of during the school year will help.
Today in my scripture reading I read in Isaiah 60:19-22 where God is telling Israel that they wont need the sun during the day, because God will be their eternal light. The Message says, “I will be your eternal light, the days of grieving are over.” So many times we rely on the logical means this earth provides for our guidance. We wait for the sun to rise so we can begin our workday. It says “the days of grieving are over.”
Do you know someone who allows grieving, depression or anxiety to rule over them? Their thoughts, their relationships and their days are consumed with worry. God says, look, I am your light. I am your reliance. But it takes a step of faith to even let go of such vices as depression, because as backwards as it may seem, depression sometimes is the only safe place we think we have to live.
Isaiah continues to record God’s message with, “The least will become a thousand, the smallest a mighty nation…” (v 22) God will remember the least. He will remember the smallest. The last one picked for the pick-up game, is the first one on God’s A-Team. I guess if anyone reads this, I just want to encourage you to hang on. I may not understand your specific situation, but I do know that it doesn’t have to be this way. You don’t have to be confined to a life of worry and anxiety.
Maybe the simplest way to begin to step out of the light of the sun into the eternal light of God is to just say, “God, I need to start over.” Do you know that God is God of do-overs. Not that he messes up and needs to try again, but we do. That is the concept of repentance. Repentance is a daily thing, because we sin daily.
Do-overs are a daily thing, because sometimes we slip back into a darkened state of depression. If you are depressed. If you are anxious. If you are grieving. Cry out to God, “God I need to start over. Please help me to bask in your eternal light.”
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