In this Pentecost message, Pastor Eric reflects on the strange, confusing, seemingly absurd ways that God shows up in our world and in our lives. But all too often, we try to domesticate God, we try to control how and where “god” shows up and what happens as a result. In short, we get stuck in our own patterns and ways.
Pentecost is an invitation to open oneself to God’s Spirit, trusting that even when things seem chaotic, confusing, and beyond our control God can still be found. Which is to say that love and life are still present and unfolding; there is a future with joy and goodness that is still possible; mercy and healing are on their way. The invitation—and spiritual challenge—for us is to trust this truth enough that we can find it, can live into it even here and now amidst the uncertainty; to trust it enough that we can lives as thought it already were true. And inasmuch as we do, it is; it becomes real in and through us. This is good news not only for Christians or the church, but for the whole world!
Indeed, the future toward which God’s Spirit is collectively calling us is far beyond, more than, different from anything we could make for ourselves.
