Looking for Resurrection

Yahweh speaks to the gather tribes of Israel, summing up the whole point of giving the people the scriptures in the first place:

I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. - Deuteronomy 30:19-20

God things we have remarkable agency: we can choose into the things that bring life, or we can miss out on those. We actually get to pick what we focus on. It’s very empowering of us little human beings.

At the end of the message on Sunday, Brenna Rubio shared this insight from the Womanist Old Testament scholar, Wilda Gafney, who echoed those lines from Deuteronomy. Gafney comments on how God invites us to look for the places where life is breaking through and to focus on them:

It is easy to find the broken places in our world and those that deal death. Where are the resurrection spaces? Where do we look to see that death does not, in fact, have the last word? And what is our work in bridging the gap between death and life? - Wil Gafney

Take a moment to pause and take a couple of breaths. Where are you hearing the Spirit nudge you from these words today?

Take some time to think about what will help you ‘bridge the gap’ for others who are not fully experiencing life today?