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Center | FOUNDRYsermon 10.1.17
When was the last time you told someone you were too busy? I'll bet it was within the last 48 hours.
We wear our tattered schedules on our sleeves with pride now. Honestly, I can't remember the last day that wasn't either hurried. And to be extra honest, there were also ones where I had guilt that I was taking a moment to breathe. The phrase #crazybusy is a hashtag I would love to de-enroll from. When we try to make our dream life ourselves, the only reward is often exhaustion. The older I get, the more I am learning there is a big difference between living a full life and living a fulfilled life.
What if I told you this sense of exhaustion, scatteredness, and anxiety wasn't just a personal issue…but also a theological one.
What if I told you one of the reasons Jesus came was to eradicate this emotion from your life?
It all starts and (nearly) the beginning.
But the Lord said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground! 11 Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has swallowed your brother's blood. 12 No longer will the ground yield good crops for you, no matter how hard you work! From now on you will be a homeless wanderer on the earth."
13 Cain replied to the Lord, "My punishment is too great for me to bear! 14 You have banished me from the land and from your presence; you have made me a homeless wanderer. Anyone who finds me will kill me!"
15 The Lord replied, "No, for I will give a sevenfold punishment to anyone who kills you." Then the Lord put a mark on Cain to warn anyone who might try to kill him.16 So Cain left the Lord's presence and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. Genesis 4:10-16
Cain, who is now the only son of Adam and Eve, meets face to face with God over the murder of his brother Abel. And this incident with sin is loaded. Cain clearly has a problem with centering. The punishment fitting to the crime is not one of retribution, but of exile. Sent away from the presence of God, the center of the world Cain knows. And it is directly in this punishment each of us finds our own journey of worry beginning.
So let's jump into this together. Full force. Learn that living a life at the edge can mean two things. We are either terrified of falling over or exultant about jumping into the next big thing.
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When was the last time you told someone you were too busy? I'll bet it was within the last 48 hours.
We wear our tattered schedules on our sleeves with pride now. Honestly, I can't remember the last day that wasn't either hurried. And to be extra honest, there were also ones where I had guilt that I was taking a moment to breathe. The phrase #crazybusy is a hashtag I would love to de-enroll from. When we try to make our dream life ourselves, the only reward is often exhaustion. The older I get, the more I am learning there is a big difference between living a full life and living a fulfilled life.
What if I told you this sense of exhaustion, scatteredness, and anxiety wasn't just a personal issue…but also a theological one.
What if I told you one of the reasons Jesus came was to eradicate this emotion from your life?
It all starts and (nearly) the beginning.
But the Lord said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground! 11 Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has swallowed your brother's blood. 12 No longer will the ground yield good crops for you, no matter how hard you work! From now on you will be a homeless wanderer on the earth."
13 Cain replied to the Lord, "My punishment is too great for me to bear! 14 You have banished me from the land and from your presence; you have made me a homeless wanderer. Anyone who finds me will kill me!"
15 The Lord replied, "No, for I will give a sevenfold punishment to anyone who kills you." Then the Lord put a mark on Cain to warn anyone who might try to kill him.16 So Cain left the Lord's presence and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. Genesis 4:10-16
Cain, who is now the only son of Adam and Eve, meets face to face with God over the murder of his brother Abel. And this incident with sin is loaded. Cain clearly has a problem with centering. The punishment fitting to the crime is not one of retribution, but of exile. Sent away from the presence of God, the center of the world Cain knows. And it is directly in this punishment each of us finds our own journey of worry beginning.
So let's jump into this together. Full force. Learn that living a life at the edge can mean two things. We are either terrified of falling over or exultant about jumping into the next big thing.