JOINING CHRIST IN THE WORK OF RECONCILIATION

Tonight and tomorrow, our Gulf Coast Team members will be preparing for their experience by gathering together at Jumonville Conference Center outside of Uniontown. They will be learning, praying, and building connections with one another that God will leverage as they travel to the Gulf region on February 11. Even as you read these words, would you please take a moment to pray for their time together?

While I will not be traveling with them to the Gulf region, I do feel like I am a part of the team and have a role to play in partnering with them. So tomorrow morning I will arise early and trek to Jumonville (ascend the hill of the Lord) to spend time with them vision casting, encouraging, and sharing what I hope and pray will be empowering words from God.

Here's the word I am stuck on today; it's from Colossians 1:

We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God's original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels; everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment. And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body. He was supreme in the beginning and is leading the resurrection parade; he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he's there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe, people and things, animals and atoms, get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the Cross. (Colossians 1:15-23, The Message).

The reason our team is headed to the Gulf region is to join the work that Christ is already doing putting together the broken and dislocated pieces of that part of the world. How cool is that?!

And you know what - the more I think about it - we can join Christ wherever and whenever He is about His reconciling work. How cool is that?

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