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For the last few weeks we have been talking about Anxiety as "empty space", and this week we will begin talking about filling that space. In many ways, this emptiness is at the beginning of the story of God and His interaction with creation.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.Genesis 1:1-2
In these three sentences we learn much about what the absence of the presence of God looks like. Formless and empty. Covered in darkness, with a great chasm filled with a substance humans can't live in. Without purpose and shape. For anyone who deals with anxiety, that description gets pretty appropriate. And as Balthasar, one of our conversation partners in these teachings says "the world was created as a supernatural experience of grace, and not for pointless living." To speak of the freedom from anxiety brought about by Jesus is to make a statement about who has really built our world. The space between, us turned from empty to full because of grace.
So this week we find ourselves in an early story of Jesus with His disciples in the gospel of Mark.
As evening came, Jesus said to his disciples, "Let's cross to the other side of the lake." So they took Jesus in the boat and started out, leaving the crowds behind (although other boats followed). But soon a fierce storm came up. High waves were breaking into the boat, and it began to fill with water.
Jesus was sleeping at the back of the boat with his head on a cushion. The disciples woke him up, shouting, "Teacher, don't you care that we're going to drown?"
When Jesus woke up, he rebuked the wind and said to the waves, "Silence! Be still!" Suddenly the wind stopped, and there was a great calm. Then he asked them, "Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?"
The disciples were absolutely terrified. "Who is this man?" they asked each other. "Even the wind and waves obey him!" Mark 4:35-41 NLT
Inside of this story we find many truths, but nearly all of them point back to two things. The first is that Jesus did not believe in worry, even at the most stressful and anxious moments. The second, is that he has a power that is out of grasp for the rest of humanity, but He exercises and offers it to us. And it isn't blindly used, but it is used to fill all the spaces and gaps we may find in life.
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For the last few weeks we have been talking about Anxiety as "empty space", and this week we will begin talking about filling that space. In many ways, this emptiness is at the beginning of the story of God and His interaction with creation.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.Genesis 1:1-2
In these three sentences we learn much about what the absence of the presence of God looks like. Formless and empty. Covered in darkness, with a great chasm filled with a substance humans can't live in. Without purpose and shape. For anyone who deals with anxiety, that description gets pretty appropriate. And as Balthasar, one of our conversation partners in these teachings says "the world was created as a supernatural experience of grace, and not for pointless living." To speak of the freedom from anxiety brought about by Jesus is to make a statement about who has really built our world. The space between, us turned from empty to full because of grace.
So this week we find ourselves in an early story of Jesus with His disciples in the gospel of Mark.
As evening came, Jesus said to his disciples, "Let's cross to the other side of the lake." So they took Jesus in the boat and started out, leaving the crowds behind (although other boats followed). But soon a fierce storm came up. High waves were breaking into the boat, and it began to fill with water.
Jesus was sleeping at the back of the boat with his head on a cushion. The disciples woke him up, shouting, "Teacher, don't you care that we're going to drown?"
When Jesus woke up, he rebuked the wind and said to the waves, "Silence! Be still!" Suddenly the wind stopped, and there was a great calm. Then he asked them, "Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?"
The disciples were absolutely terrified. "Who is this man?" they asked each other. "Even the wind and waves obey him!" Mark 4:35-41 NLT
Inside of this story we find many truths, but nearly all of them point back to two things. The first is that Jesus did not believe in worry, even at the most stressful and anxious moments. The second, is that he has a power that is out of grasp for the rest of humanity, but He exercises and offers it to us. And it isn't blindly used, but it is used to fill all the spaces and gaps we may find in life.
See you this Sunday