To Be Repurposed
Last night I started watching the docu-miniseries of the life of Moses on Netflix. It is wonderful and I recommend it highly. One of the statements, a commentator made, truly captured my imagination ‘God has a way of taking broken persons and repurposing them for a greater good’. I believe it resonates with yesterday’s post ‘Take Up My Life Again’ and with our Gospel passage this week John 10: 17 ‘For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again.’
So often in life we find ourselves broken, just yesterday a powerful missionary disciple friend of mine got into a serious car accident, and this morning we got news that he has multiple broken ribs. As I reflected on this news, during our morning walk, and the commentator’s piece of wisdom, I wondered how God plans on mending my friend for a greater good. This is not to say that God wills calamities in our lives, but that he uses these challenges for the greater good.
The life of a Christian is a series of big and small deaths and resurrections. As we navigate through them we are being re-purposed for a greater good. I like that word ‘repurposed’. Growing in Christian teaching I encoutered the word ‘vocation’ and understood it as a one-off decision, a choice in life, between clergy, religious, married and single. I now understand vocation as fluid. God is the ultimate re-purposer, the master potter, taking us where we are, with all our brokeness and remaking us into something more beautiful.
His work with us is never over, probably continuing even after death. The possibilities of even a simple life is so magnificent, as my English granddaughter would say “super awesome’ if we only take it to the Lord in prayer. This understanding is truly liberating. God’s purpose for our lives is so expansive that most, if not all of us, do not fulfill our true potential. We invariably sell ourself short - our vision is too small for God’s purpose for our lives.
NOTICE
I planned on launching my Travelogue to churches this weekend, and then yesterday an establishment expressed its wish to be part of my first post. So this morning I am being fluid, I may postpone the first post to next weekend, to have time to amend the post. Please pray for guidance.
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