Here's to a Better Tomorrow!
Be strong and bold . . . for it is God who goes ahead of you. – Moses to Joshua in Deuteronomy 31:6 I love Moses’ phrase, “God is gone ahead of you.” Rob Bell talks about it in his latest book, What we Talk about When we Talk about God . Bell (and Moses) is arguing that God is simultaneously in the present and in the future pulling us into a better tomorrow. The Greeks had a word for this: telos . It means God is dragging, enticing, and luring us into the Great Unknown. Ministers must be people who believe God has gone ahead of us. That’s the deep, sacred work of vocational ministry. We listen and discern, hope and hold on, pray and believe that God is in what we’re doing, and we can be not afraid or dismayed for God is gone ahead of us. I’m a NEEDTOBREATHE fan. In their song Keep Your Eyes Open, the chorus says, “If you never leave home, if you never let go, you’ll never make it to the Great Unknown . . . so keep your eyes open . . .” We ministers must