Liturgy: Comforts
Our plans for life don’t always line up with the bigger and better plans that God has for our life.
What is the King’s Liturgy? King’s Liturgy defines our experience together as a Christian community. It outlines the rhythms we celebrate with the Church at large: Scripture readings, Sabbath habits, and celebration of Holy Days and historical events.
This Week’s Lectionary Readings
1 Samuel 16:1-13
Ephesians 5:8-14
John 9:1-41
Psalm 23
This week’s liturgy is contributed by Leticia Mosqueda, Housing Director:
Our plans for life don’t always line up with the bigger and better plans that God has for our life. I am often reminded of this when I think of the way that my life has shaped out to be thus far. The comfortable thing probably would have been to be settled down with a family in Texas, or so I think. The comfortable thing would have been for God to answer my prayers for a spouse.
Sometimes I deeply long for those things and think they would solve my spells of loneliness that I feel while living in a city of 8 million people. However, I am reminded that God’s “no” to marriage has been a “yes” to so many other things in my life. His “no” turns into a “yes” to being fully present here and having the ability to invest whole heartedly into my city, job, and church. His “yes” is always better in our story.
Every painful and joyful part of your story, past, present, and future, every part of it, God wrote that story. He wrote it. And he did it for his glory and for your good. Every aspect that seems to be unraveling in your life today is actually perfectly held together by God. Every single part of it is meant for his glory and your good.
In Psalm 23, David says that, “He restores my soul. He leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.” God has restored and fulfilled my soul over and over and then over again. David reminds us that God is with us in all that we do. I often pray and am comforted by the fact that God is truly with me through all of my life story. The way that the Psalm ends is the most comforting thing we could ever feel in, “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” Forever, friends. And forever has no end.
Trust that he restores and comforts your soul all the days of your life. That is my prayer for you.