LET ME LIVE IN YOUR STORY

During the Lenten period leading up to Easter, the theme for Sanctuary First was “The Journey is made on the way” It is surely as we walk the way with Jesus we begin to discover more and more about his person and character. I must admit I really liked this year’s Easter video short, entitled “The Undertakers”. It many ways it was seeking to speak in a metaphorical way about the Church today. Too often we seem to be people in search of a past that can never be regained while ignoring the significance and the potential of the present. Almost afraid of the power that is able to sustain us through a living encounter with Jesus today. In the metaphor mentioned above the Christ-like hitchhiker almost scolds Ernie and Rab for seeking to live as it were in “His story”. The implication is that each of us has our own story to live and it can only truly be fulfilled when we invite the Risen Christ to come live in “our story”. Paul in Ephesians chapter 2:10 reminds us that we are “His” workmanship created to do good works. Indeed he suggests God has already laid out a plan that our lives should fulfil. “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” This month for the next three weeks we are going to ask the question what does it mean to begin to live out our own story in Christ in the midst of our families, our neighbours and our work colleagues. We are called to be witnesses of the resurrection, witnesses to God’s new creation which has already broken in upon us. We no longer live by the old nature, we have been changed, become new creation, like Jesus our brother. He has walked out of darkness into the light of a new dawn and we are called to follow. When we do so we discover Christ living in our story making it into his story.