Radically Happy

MIC Check

Today’s Most Important Challenge is…

• Hearing your plan
• Clearly enough
• To find my role
• And play my part

Immanuel Approach Memo

Continued from 6/13 IAM: Prophesying

I am… stopped.

I thought Jesus told me to bring freedom
At His command, I ran full speed into our prison door

And was thwarted
It rang like a bell
As does my head

I was expecting to break through
All I got was a bruise

I look for Jesus.

He is still there
Still smiling

Then He turns away
And to my amazement
Recruits another runner
To do the very same thing

With the same result
But a different note

My eyes are opened.

I see many prisons
Many doors
Many runners

Together
We make a melody
A pleasing offering to the Lord
As we hurl our lives into His service

And even though
The doors stay closed
Something shifts

The walls
Start to resonate
The tempo
Starts to increase

Jesus looks at me.

I realize
It is my turn again

It is hard
So hard
To throw my life away
Again

But
He is worth it

I give it my all
Crash headfirst into the door

This time
Something breaks…

But is it just me?

To be continued

Reflection

I feel…

• Expendable
• Harmonized
• Caught up
• Impacted
• Crushed but not destroyed

Scripture

Sing a new song to the LORD! Sing his praises from the ends of the earth! Sing, all you who sail the seas, all you who live in distant coastlands.

Isaiah 42:10