I love this time of year! September is just around the corner, it’s always a time for a fresh start, a new beginning. School is about to start, a long baseball season is coming down to the wire, college football is on the brink of a new season, and the worship time is about to change for our church! I can’t help but be excited for what is to come. We can all look back on our lives and think of moments when we have been excited for the future, or an event that is about to take place. But in all the excitement I often forget about the present, and because I often find myself looking ahead I sometimes don’t fully enjoy what God is doing in the present.
When Jesus walked this earth the people of God who were looking for him missed him because they were not concerned with the present. They discounted Jesus because they had built up in their mind what the future for God’s people was supposed to be. They had a future glory in mind but did not realize glory had arrived.
As Christians today we find ourselves looking to the future for Christ to return and bring glory, but we fail to see Christ here and now and what he is doing through his people. God is moving in the present among us and through us. We are not waiting for the kingdom to come but we are in the process of building it now. Faith Community Church of the Nazarene is not going to wait for the kingdom but actively engage in the building of the kingdom through service, teaching, worship, feeding the poor, healing the sick, and loving our enemies.
