TCM - Training Christians for Ministry - GPS Journal

March 24, 2010

Vol 2, Issue 6

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Dear Friend,

In our deepest selves, don't we long to love and be loved? Fully and completely? On some level, I think we know it's what God intended. But, evil's poisoned web creates suffocating distance between us. Emptiness. We lack the strength for real love. Cut off from our true heritage and destiny.

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GUIDANCE

"It was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love" (John 13:1 NIV).

"Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist" (John 13:3, 4 NIV).

PERSPECTIVE

But we were made for this!

The Father, like the sun, radiates love. The Son, glorious reflection, mirrors the Father. The Begetter and the Begotten. Eternally. In the strong bond of the Spirit.

This loving relationship birthed you and me (along with all else). They chose us and adopted us into Their eternal family. This family of those who do what's right. God's strong right-hand Word formed us from frail dust, while His powerful left-hand Spirit energized us into being. To make us sons and daughters of Abraham, called out of Egypt, given the Law and Prophets, the Incarnate Word, the Written Word, martyrs, trailblazers, guides, friends, and witnesses all through the ages.

STRENGTH FOR THE JOURNEY

And that's not all. Formed by His many beams of love, He now transforms us into His likeness. He is recreating us to live within this eternal relationship which painted the first supernova, made the first sunrise, and welcomes children home. This relationship we call the Trinity is our eternal destiny. And toward Them we swim like spiritual salmon seeking our way forward to the Holy Place from which we were spawned.

Our heart's true home. Where God's loving embrace creates sacred space among us.

Tony