This Sunday we move our Gathering from one place to another. And while the physical change has been bitter-sweet, sweaty(!), and even a bit energizing; the truth is, the place we are going is not the real place we yearn to be. We, like the psalmist, have a driving hunger that leads to our singular request,
“One thing have I asked of the LORD,
that will I seek after:
that I may dwell in the house of the LORD
all the days of my life,
to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD
and to meditate in his temple.”
(Psalm 27:4)
So this week, as we go from place to place, let us seek together the place our souls long to be, and find that the goodness of the LORD we seek, we “shall look upon…in the land of the living” (Ps. 27:13). Let us pray together:
Father, our souls cry out to you, asking you for that which we need most, to be with You. Let that place, the goodness and beauty and wonder, the strength and light and salvation, of Your presence be like a magnet pulling our hearts and minds toward Yours. And in that place, may our lives reflect the goodness, grace, and glory that shines upon us, a beacon to those in our lives to find their lives in You. Through Jesus we enter, and stay, and pray. Amen.