In your love my salvation
This morning the prayer and the song became one. As I listen to Alexi Murdock’s “Orange Sky” I read from “>www.Sacredspace.ie, the site I visit for spiritual formation, I felt the salvation of my soul.
I read these words:
Lord, help me to be fully alive to your holy presence.
Enfold me in your love.
Let my heart become one with yours.
I heard these words:
“In your love, my salvation, in your love, my salvation.”
These are the words I hear when I read the gospels, when thinking of the church these words seem faint.
Salvation seems to have lost it’s relevance in the American society. With out a need for a savior we no longer look, or seek one.
Jesus is has become a pop icon and the church has become the irrelevant contribution to this mess.
Maybe I say this because of what I have been observing over the past couple months in my community.
This past week has been late night conversations about the kingdom, the church and frustration with the expectation of how the people of God should be… I am tired by the critique, I want to see the salvation, the return of the simple words of Jesus.
Those of you who are misplaced, sick and tired come to me and you will find rest.
Go into the world and follow me. I am already there. (A paraphrase of the theme I pull out in Christ’s words through out the Gospels)
There is a subtle story line of a God who has both come to heal, and come to fulfill the call. No longer do we have to see our own calling as a personal role, we can now enter a story beyond our understanding of a God/Man who is apart of the Father and has given himself to the world. As the Spirit remains we are the remembrance, we are the spirit. As we begin to trust in the end result of all things done by God for God we see ourselves a small and significant to the Mission.
May you hear the words of, “In your love my salvation, in your love my salvation.”
With love and peace in my heart…
