Disorientation.
Wonderful word. Use it in a conversation some time.
The way you use it is when someone is evidently in a state where they don’t have their bearings, not quite in a place of knowing there they are going they are in a state of disorientation.
Being lost as an experience brings about a range of emotions. It’s especially something when you realise that you’ve lost your sense of bearing on the world. Where you should be and what you should be doing all of those things up in the air with a great sense of uncertainty and a desperation to latch onto anything that looks reliable. Experience persists to teach, however, that just because something looks reliable, it’s not always reliable. Learning the crash from that can make it difficult to trust anything again. Yet in not trusting there is still the desperation to get something that lasts – to find a place where you can get your bearings.
It occurred to me the other day, that in as much as I love the comfort and assurance in knowing that God found me, there’s a lot more to the relationship than that. Even as those who were found soon discovered they were only found to be sent, there is something even more invigorating and exciting to realise that the opposite to be lost is not being found, but being sent. The same Father that sent the Son now sees the Son that was sent sending the Spirit. The Spirit that has been sent equips people to likewise be sent into the lost world not to help them find themselves – but to help them discover that they too are sent ones. Sent into the world to get people out of this world and to embrace the reality of the Kingdom that has come and is yet to come.
Comfort and assurance, pleasant though they are, do not become the drivers for life in Christ. They are not the reason to believe and they are not the things that matter most in that walk. Even as people rush to seek purpose and destiny, there is something satisfying to discover that no longer being lost you are sent. On mission and it’s no longer looking to be found because you’re lost, it’s looking for the lost to be sent.
It’s a pleasure to be on the mission and it’s a pleasure to see others see that for themselves too all because of the Sent One.
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For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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