Seven Ways To Respond To Epiphany Today
by Dan Wilt | Jan 1, 2013 | Tags: epiphany, revealing, love
- REFLECT on the stunning reality that God doesn't hide - He reveals Himself. This is the very nature of true love – self-revealing. In Christ, God gave the world an epiphany of Himself, His Personality, robed in vulnerability.
- REMEMBER that Christ's revealing to the Gentiles was a cataclysmic fulfillment of the Genesis mandate. God's Story reaching every tribe of humanity was always the point; a people (the Jews) were designed to carry that revelation to the entire of the human race, for all time.
- RECLAIM a faith that expects God to show up, to be present, to evidence Himself as near through his Spirit and His Word.
- RETELL the story to your family about how Jesus revealed Himself to you - as Resurrected Lord and Restorer of your weary soul.
- REPEAT the words of the three magi, the three astrologer kings who made a life's mission of searching sacred books and crossing deserts to find the One who would come to right the world: "We have seen his star... and have come to worship Him" (Matthew 2:2).
- RESPOND with silent moments of sincere thanks, vivid songs of acclaim, and whispered prayers of confidence in God's future for you, your family - and the cosmos.
- RETRAIN your heart, mind and body to join with Christ in His Commission by incarnating in your world the kind of love that never fails, lives to serve, dies for others, rises from ashes, and never, ever gives up.