yes

Opening Prayer: Thank you, O God, that you are always yes in Christ Jesus.  May the yes of my soul meet the yes of your heart and produce the fruit of the kingdom within and around me.  Amen.

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 1:20-22

Journal: How does it make you feel to hear that God is yes rather than no?  Where do you find his yes deep within you?  Where have you heard it or been captured by it recently?  

Reflection: God is yes.  What a different story from the one many of us grew up hearing; how God was mostly—if not completely—no.  But nothing could be further from the truth.  God is yes, and all of the promises of God are yes in Jesus.  Thus, when the yes of God combines with the yes that he buried deep within our souls (the image of the God in whom we were made), something incredibly special happens—an amen pours forth.  Who God is and who we are come mysteriously and marvelously together.  We have union with God in Christ.  It is God’s deepest desire for us.

     If we will search deep within our hearts for that yes, we will find him, and be found by him.  We will become more and more the people he created us to be.  His yes and our yes will be in complete harmony.  When we search his Word each day, his yes will find us, and our yes will well up in our hearts.  It is his pursuit of us.  It is the place where we come alive.  So search you heart, and his Word, today for his yes—and yours.  Amen and amen!

Prayer

Closing Prayer: For all that has been—Thanks.  For all that shall be—Yes. ~Dag Hammarskold