The target of this post is anyone in a leadership role. Life has a way of building us up or wearing us down. The natural gravity of being a person is to walk being steadily pulled down. The reverse gravity of resurrection power is to be wonderfully lifted up.
For indeed he was crucified because of weakness, yet he lives because of the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, yet we shall live with Him because of the power of God directed toward you.
Jesus was weak enough, human enough, to die; but yet he still lives because he was resurrected. You and me, says the passage, are also weak like human Jesus was. However, we are able to really live because of God's resurrection power DIRECTED toward us. A very WoW verse!
We must, must lean into the upward gravitational pull of God via His resurrection power. It had nothing to do with Jesus' exertion from the grave. He lay there dead. When death falls into the gravitational drift of God one arises where earth's (earthy) gravitation falls.
We need to know this!
Earth pulls at our ministerial/leadership roles. We may begin new and wide-eyed; yet that pull finds us looking at the very same work later very tired, frustrated, and weary. It may even be true that a once vibrant ambition has now settled into a dull routine of contentment; even indifference.
I urge preachers and elders and teachers to shove out the earth pull and lean in upon the heaven pull. If you are tired, rest. If you are bewildered, lay dead. Let God have a chance to do his resurrection power stuff. We keep trying to do our own raising which only leaves us with more dead efforts.
I started out crazy about preaching; wild about church. Today is more so and not because I have this magic formula where everything I try works. Such has been the reverse. I've had more failures than most. The hope is in God. That statement is neither dishonest nor is it meagerly humble.
Too many of us are maturing toward earth rather than toward heaven. We slip into self-effort instead of resting in God's power. We become fixed on fixing things. Blind willingness to trust has transferred to a mistaken professionalism as to how we go about our kingdom engagement.
I say awaken to a new sort of day where problems and struggles are our fuel; not our demise. I'm not just saying we ought to think about it. No. We need to do more. We need to LET IT happen. The LET IT is God's resurrection power which defies human logic.
Kingdom gravity pulls us up. Let go of your obsession to make things work and LET IT happen!
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