Community is our start
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We need to fix what is broken
We need to fix what is broken
Have you ever broken something and tried to fix it?
I really enjoy disassembling pens and then putting them together again. I actually really enjoy when I do not know the type of pen that I disassemble at first, the idea that I can break this only enough to the point that I can reassmble it to remake the pen is awesome. Maybe you are like me and do that when you are listening to someone and use it as a make shift fidget.
I also like to reassmble them into projectile shooters, that the pen using the spring in the casing would fire out to hit a object. Making something new out of the thing I broke?
The thing is, we all have something broken, may it be the shoes we wear, tears of paper, or the one I really want to focus on is the trust and relationships of the people around us.
Even if we have no breaks there is hidden cracks under the surface.
See when Adam and Eve were made in the Garden back in Genesis Chapter 1
we see a world with out breaks, one that is something to wonder at.
However Adam and Eve they break that by committing sin, and they break a few things when they choose to eat the apple off of the tree.
Listen to this part of the punishments that they recceive after God finds out they broke the one rule of the garden:
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
There is this blame game that starts where Adam and Eve blame the next person in line.
lets look at it, Adam blames Eve and then Eve blames the snake.
Does that really matter tho?
God punishes each to their own extent, that they are punished.
However we look at this and we see the breaking of relationships, that
God and them are broken
and their relationship with eachother is broken.
Messed up world, but the cool think is that eventually God sends his son and invites us back to fixing the relationship with us and God,
But even more that he invites us to live a life that tries to fix the broken relationships that we might have made in our life.
Jesus invites us to Love our neighbor, and he invites us to turn our cheek, to bless our enemy, to care for those who do not deserve it.
Jesus invites us back into community with each other, that we do not need to be arms length apart in the our relationships, or keeping on hand on the sword in our conversations.
Rather we can have a look at this new creation of Community. That Jesus invites us not into the Garden community that got screwed up, but he invites us into the new garden community that really is the Church, this community where we deeply care for eachother cuz we have a great example.
Jesus
So this next week instead of passing the blame I want you to instead pass on love. As Jesus says in the sermon on the mount:
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that?
And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Fixing our broken relationships cannot be something done without loving one another. Even when we feel like they do not deserve love, we will must love them.
That means praying for them to succeed even when they want you to fail
that means loving them even when they seek to bring harm to you
that means praying for them to receive whatever they need even though you feel like they do not desserve it.
This is the love that God calls us to. that we would want someone else to experience the goodness of God when they want us to be hurt and dragged through the mud. We must be a people group who first desire that everyone experiences God’s pressence.
We must bring his pressence by loving just as he loves us.
That means that even though we get hurt by others, we still show love instead of revenge, that is the way we are called to love.
This week I want to challenge you to love like God loves you, what does that mean for you today?
maybe that is praying
maybe that is genouosity
maybe that is kind words
maybe that is quality time
How can you love like the Lord loves you today?
Is there someone who you cannot stand being around?
What happens when you are around someone you do not like?
How do you treat others who you do not like and they do not like you back?
What does God’s love look like in your life?
How can you love like the Lord loves you today?