{"id":153,"date":"2012-04-13T15:55:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T20:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/?p=153"},"modified":"2012-07-14T05:56:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T10:56:09","slug":"where-is-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/13\/where-is-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is Jesus??"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am starting to get restless a little at school. \u00a0We have less than thirty days until school is out. \u00a0Although\u00a0I am excited, I am going to miss everyone\u00a0that will be leaving. \u00a0We have a strange setup here, kinda, at seminary. \u00a0The only people I can more or less be\u00a0guaranteed\u00a0to see more than a single year, is my class I start with. \u00a0We are on campus for two years and then go away on internship for a year and come back for our senior year. \u00a0This means there are always people leaving and coming. \u00a0After this year, the\u00a0middlers\u00a0that I know very well, since I was taking classes online and visiting while they were Juniors, I will not see again on campus. \u00a0The Seniors, many who I have begun to know well, are also going to be gone.<\/p>\n

All of this just kinda leaves an empty feeling in me. \u00a0On one hand I am excited to go off to my CPE assignment (Chaplaincy\u00a0training and more) but on the other hand, I do not want this to end but I know It must. \u00a0In all of this, I keep wondering, where is Jesus in this? \u00a0This community is so forming and I can see Jesus all around. \u00a0I felt the Holy Spirit today in chapel as well. \u00a0See my posting in my Loss and Grief blog today<\/a>. \u00a0Where is Jesus in us having to leave each other?<\/p>\n

I know Jesus is there….. where do you see Jesus at? \u00a0We as pastors in training, here on campus, on internship or on first call, will be experiencing all sorts of good and bad things. \u00a0It is easy to see where Jesus is in the good but what about the bad? \u00a0We will have to leave our families in some cases, no longer be with our friends we have made, suffer many other hardships along the way. \u00a0I don’t want this to be all negative, since there is so many positive things that do, and will happen.<\/p>\n

Jesus had a childhood, so he understood us in our childhood. \u00a0He had a ministry here on earth. \u00a0When Jesus was on earth, his ministry was filled with good and bad times. \u00a0Sometimes the people got it and there was great joy. \u00a0Other<\/p>\n

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times, just when Jesus thought \u00a0someone understood, they showed Him just how much that did not understand. \u00a0Now there is some frustration!<\/p>\n

Remember, Jesus was human and\u00a0divine. \u00a0I think to often we forget that Jesus was human as well. \u00a0Therefore the divine was able to fully participate in all that it meant to be human. \u00a0The happiness, sadness, sorrow, joy, friendship, betrayal, pain and suffering. \u00a0Jesus has seen it all, knows it all, has\u00a0experienced\u00a0it all and we can be assured He knows what we go through each and every day. \u00a0Jesus is walking side by side us always. \u00a0We can turn to Jesus and tell Him just how we feel and what we need.<\/p>\n

Ask, and It Will Be Given<\/a><\/p>\n

Matthew 7:7-11<\/p>\n

7\u00a0\u201cAsk,\u00a0and it will be given to you;\u00a0seek, and you will find;knock, and it will be opened to you.\u00a08\u00a0For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.\u00a09\u00a0Or which one of you, if his son asks him for\u00a0bread, will give him\u00a0a stone?\u00a010\u00a0Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?\u00a011\u00a0If you then,\u00a0who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will\u00a0your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!<\/p>\n

Where is Jesus today in your life? \u00a0Where do you see Jesus in another person’s life\u00a0and have you shared the Good News to them?<\/p>\n

Go out and proclaim the good new of Jesus and what He is doing in your life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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