Messiness in Our Faith Life ~ Jeff Key

Staff, March 11, 2021

"Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you…"  ~James 4:8

Prior to COVID drawing near to God was a lot easier. We had a schedule. Sure we could and should pray anywhere and anytime and maybe we did, but let’s be honest before covid it was really easy to be with God in his house. We had regularly scheduled times for worship, Sunday school, choir practice, First Communion classes, and small group meetings. We made time to draw near to God---then COVID hit and things got down right messy. No more schedules and it wasn’t just the church schedule that was affected—life was turned upside down. It became difficult to draw near to God. We all had to adapt to a new reality of fluid schedules and changing rules. All of this made it tougher to draw near to God but through all that we found ways---First online services, then small backyard neighborhood services, then outdoor backyard and parking lot services at the CTK campus, then a few indoor services at the COL campus and now we are trying indoor services again. All this is us making an effort to draw near to God.  We don’t need buildings for that, we just need believing hearts because he is always there whether our lives get messy or not.

Almighty Father, especially now, helps us to see that we can draw near to You at any time and in any place—that drawing near to You is a lot easier than we think because you are always near to us. Amen.