Jan 09, 2022 |
God's Beloved
| Guest SpeakerGod's Beloved
Friends, we have yearnings ourselves, not entirely unlike
those in Jesus' own heart. And I'm here to tell you that we do well to pay
attention to them and to honor them. What Jesus does with those yearnings however
unclear they might have been, can become our way also. Because you see, we are
children of God, also. We are the beloved. Jesus has been these things from
before time and forever. We are God's children by adoption. But no less God's
children, because of that fact. We enter into the household of God explicitly
from the time of our baptism.
Was 30 odd years on into Jesus' life that he went into the murky waters of the Jordan river and there discovered a truth about himself that had been there all along. There was never a moment when he was not God's beloved. But that truth becomes clear in that moment and it shapes his life from that day forward and all the wondrous things that he said and did flowed out of this knowing, this being, this realization. I am God's child, The beloved. You know, it really does help to know who you are.
Baptism makes clear who we are in our own lives. We've always been beloved by God. Baptism simply puts it out publicly. Lays it bare out in the open for us to realize, and for everyone else to see. We are beloved by God. And oh yes, we are also lawyers and doctors and teachers and baseball players. But, first of all, we are beloved by God.
Was 30 odd years on into Jesus' life that he went into the murky waters of the Jordan river and there discovered a truth about himself that had been there all along. There was never a moment when he was not God's beloved. But that truth becomes clear in that moment and it shapes his life from that day forward and all the wondrous things that he said and did flowed out of this knowing, this being, this realization. I am God's child, The beloved. You know, it really does help to know who you are.
Baptism makes clear who we are in our own lives. We've always been beloved by God. Baptism simply puts it out publicly. Lays it bare out in the open for us to realize, and for everyone else to see. We are beloved by God. And oh yes, we are also lawyers and doctors and teachers and baseball players. But, first of all, we are beloved by God.