God moves

God on the road. The ground he stands on is only holy for as long as he’s there.

And then he moves on.

Now I know why Jesus’ ministry was on foot and the significance of the prophet Ezekiel’s vision of God on wheels.

God moves.

Even if there were a temple which could contain Him, he’d move.

And yet so much of the church’s focus is on things past...the way the world used to be when there was prayer in the schools and nobody worked on Sunday.

As though God is stationary and the world has passed him by. We define the times we live in as being ‘post Christian’.

It’s the reverse. It’s God who has moved on and if we don’t follow, we lose him.

When things get really desperate we cry out to him and he finds us again.

No wonder the last thing that conveys God’s presence is routine. He is not static.

‘Just as you can hear the wind but can’t tell where it comes from or where it is going’ is how he moves and who he is.

However we understand ‘Jesus the same yesterday, today and always’, it can’t be that he’s stationary, waiting for us to come back to him as someone whose best before date was Acts Chapter 2 or Genesis Chapter 1.

He is ever the promise of better things to come, ever ahead of us, ever to be followed, ever moving to the places where he is most needed to reconcile, make right and make brand new.