Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. Matthew 11:28 (MSG)
An Endless Pilgrimage – The Journey Series – Part 7
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Salvation is more than a transaction.
Healing is more than a moment of power.
Faith is more than a singular moment of exchange.
It’s all a way of life. A journey to embark on and travel down.
Continue to live into your salvation. Christ brings us into harmony with God, and that harmony is an ongoing, ever-expanding process and practice. Jesus did something for me through the cross, but he’s also DOING something IN me: an eternal work that transcends time and space and breath and blood and bone. It’s a work within me that includes all of me.
Let the Divine work.
Abraham Heschel wrote:
“Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.”
Forgiving others and asking for forgiveness.
Loving our enemy.
Doing good to those who persecute us.
Living humbly and vulnerably.
Praying and meditating.
Seeking justice.
Living with uncertainty.
Walking by faith.
Overcoming betrayal.
Experiencing joy.
Being hope-filled.
All these and more are not things that happen in an instant. They come about while on pilgrimage. Journey. As we walk through life.
PRACTICE:
If you live for results, the journey will always be arduous and seemingly too long, you grow impatient and urgent, always living in the “not yet,” and never seeing the beauty in the here and now. But when you live for and IN the journey, it becomes a miraculous place full of grace, hope, and joy. You walk through seasons of hardship knowing that you will journey all the way through it. Productivity becomes less about jobs being done and more about growth and maturity, community, and grace. You'll have the ability and the capacity to “let the land lie fallow” (yesterday's devotion) and recalibrate because your value doesn’t depend on your economic or consumeristic output.
So, give yourself a break. Relax. Breathe. It’s OK. Things rarely happen in an instant. And most of the time, what is enduring and strong and healthy comes about OVER time. So let the seed of salvation, healing, faith, restoration, whatever it is, sink deep into your heart, and give it time to grow.
A lifetime.
“Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.” Matthew 11:28-30 MSG.
Written by Liz Milani
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