Suitcases to store away. Mountains of laundry to conquer. Piles of mail to sort through. Bills to pay. Menus to make. Groceries to buy. Errands to run. The return to every day life. Your job to do. Your co-worker’s questions to answer. The place where God has placed each of us to accomplish His will for His glory. Amid the chores and jobs and everyday tasks, there’s an awareness than we have just experienced a watershed event life - marvelous and life-changing — celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles. Or did we?
As we drive home from the Feast, our thoughts bounce back and forth between thinking about what we’ve just heard and learned and thinking about what we have to do when we get home. We go to bed thinking about the slave girl’s faith and her impact on Naaman and undoubtedly countless people or thinking intentionally about our goals. We wake up thinking about beating a path, seeking God’s face or being disciple gumshoes. As we start into our day, we consider our dedication to holiness, our heart’s condition before God.
But in the midst of our reflections on the feast, we are interrupted by the present tasks, vying for our attention. The second day, we are pulled a little back into our lives. The importance of Christ living in me and me living in Messiah is crowded out with needing a new water heater and firewood for the winter.
We’ve just had an incredible Feast!! I don’t want to get pulled back into “before.” I want to hold on to those messages of hope and encouragement and exhortation! It wasn’t just a vacation! It wasn’t just a good time. It was rejoicing and worshiping before our Great God, in His presence for eight days. It was listening to well-prepared, God-inspired messages. It was engaging in meaningful conversations. It was God’s gift to us for our obedience to worship Him at His Feast of Tabernacles. He meant it to be a time of drinking in the Living Water. He meant it to be life-changing, and I have no intention of letting things get back to normal.
As we drive home from the Feast, our thoughts bounce back and forth between thinking about what we’ve just heard and learned and thinking about what we have to do when we get home. We go to bed thinking about the slave girl’s faith and her impact on Naaman and undoubtedly countless people or thinking intentionally about our goals. We wake up thinking about beating a path, seeking God’s face or being disciple gumshoes. As we start into our day, we consider our dedication to holiness, our heart’s condition before God.
But in the midst of our reflections on the feast, we are interrupted by the present tasks, vying for our attention. The second day, we are pulled a little back into our lives. The importance of Christ living in me and me living in Messiah is crowded out with needing a new water heater and firewood for the winter.
We’ve just had an incredible Feast!! I don’t want to get pulled back into “before.” I want to hold on to those messages of hope and encouragement and exhortation! It wasn’t just a vacation! It wasn’t just a good time. It was rejoicing and worshiping before our Great God, in His presence for eight days. It was listening to well-prepared, God-inspired messages. It was engaging in meaningful conversations. It was God’s gift to us for our obedience to worship Him at His Feast of Tabernacles. He meant it to be a time of drinking in the Living Water. He meant it to be life-changing, and I have no intention of letting things get back to normal.
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