Radically Happy

MIC Check

Today’s Most Important Challenge is…

• Incarnating into other people’s pain
• So Christ can save me through them
• And then vice versa

Immanuel Approach Memo

I am… potted

An indoor plant
Carefully sheltered and watered

I look for Jesus.

He is outside
He comes in

He takes a hammer
And smashes the pot

He carries me out
Naked and vulnerable
Into the cold
The rain
The heat
The snow
The wind
The noise

He digs a deep hole
Dank
Smelly
And plunges me in

It feels like I can barely sense daylight

I sleep
I wake up
I come alive

I look to the heavens.

The stars are amazing
The sun is glorious

It is not easy
It is not comfortable
It feels unsafe

But I am thriving
I am growing
I am home

Reflection

I feel…

• Wistful
• Longing
• Homesick
• Hungry
• Determined

Scripture

Therefore, this is what the Holy One of Israel has to say: “Because you have despised this message, and trust in your own clever abilities to deceive, and rely upon oppression, your own sin will become like a high, bulging wall that is cracked and about to collapse. In an instant, it will all fall down. It will break into pieces like shattered pottery, smashed so ruthlessly that not even a fragment big enough to pick up a hot coal or to scoop water from a cistern will be found!”
Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, says: “Come back to me! By returning and resting in me you will be saved. In quietness and trust you will be made strong. But you refused.”‭‭

Isaiah‬ ‭30‬:‭12‬-‭15‬ ‭TPT‬‬