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LETTING GO, MOVING FORWARD - Sunday, July 3, 2016

7/4/2016

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God's creation is ever changing, and our lives, too. Letting go of what has been and moving forward into the unknowns ahead is an exercise of faith.

Letting go of things can be hard enough, but the emotional attachments can be really tough. The grieving process enables us to progressively move through a series of rather predictable stages. Along that course, we have opportunities to become reconciled to a new situation or circumstance, letting go and moving forward.

In the passage about Elijah's call of Elisha to follow him as a prophet, we see how Elisha handles the odd manner of Elijah's outreach. He gains permission to go back and say farewell to his family and the way of life that he had come to expect. Once that was settled. Elisha moved forward in faithfulness to his calling to serve God as prophet of the Lord.

In Luke, we should pay attention to the end of chapter 9 as well as our reading from chapter 10. Here we have Luke's version of the sending of the disciples in mission. (Matthew 10 has Jesus sending the Twelve whereas Luke 10 has Jesus sending the Seventy.)

Jesus' instructions have them moving forward without any of the customary accessories of a traveler, not even sandals. They will appear simply in a garment it would seem. This spare presentation is actually a faith statement among othe rthings. It is a reflection of the new life which the disciple has received, stripped of attachments and open to true faithfulness as a witness for the Kingdom, however they're received.

Check out the whole message with the sermon video below and note the downloads below the video panel.



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1/13/2019 09:13:26 am

I had my own talk before about this matter in some school. One of the student there is very memorable for me because she asked me if what is harder, is it to move on or to let go? I did not have the chance to answer that one because it really hit me so hard. That student is very mature for her age and I guess that the generation nowadays is very different. As of now, I can finally answer that one and it is harder to let go than to move on. You can move on, but it is hard to let go of the things that is important to you.

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