Radically Happy

Honor their insecurity.
Don’t feed it.

MIC Check

Today’s Most Important Challenge is…

• Bringing people to Jesus
• So they can be forgiven
• So they can forgive themselves

Immanuel Approach Memo

Continued from Attack!

I am…weeping.

Not from the pain
Of slicing up
The heart in my chest

It belongs to Jesus
And when it is cut open
All of the tears
He carried for us
Pour out
Drowning me in compassion

The land floods.

My friends and enemies
Forget which is which
And start climbing
To where I am

I look for Jesus.

He is the rock
On which we stand

His tears
Erode away
The false identities
That keep us separated
From Him
From each other
From our selves

We band together.

Mostly
Out of shared fear
At the rising water
That threatens to drown us

But also
Because this shared intimacy
Is what we secretly craved
All along

And resented each other
For not providing

We raise our voices.

In celebration
Desperation
Invitation
Appreciation

Until
The water stops
The heavens open…

And a rainbow appears!

To be continued

Reflection

I feel…

• Heartbroken
• Grief-stricken
• Merciful
• United
• Connected
• Rescued
• Saved

Scripture

The men of Israel had bound themselves by an oath at Mizpah: “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.”
And then the people came to Bethel and sat until evening before God, and they raised their voice with groaning and great weeping.

‭‭Judges‬ ‭21‬:‭1‬-‭2‬ ‭TPT‬‬

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