Luther's verse

Martin Luther had a revelation when reading Habakkuk 2:4b, "The person in right standing before God through loyal and steady believing is fully alive, really alive."

This chapter ends with a powerful verse too, "God is in his holy Temple! Quiet everyone—a holy silence. Listen!"

If we stand before God just as we are and trust him to move in our lives, he will shape us into who he wants us to be in the world, individually and corporately.

We need to pray sincere prayers like Jordan and then listen and watch for God on the move. Will we follow where his spirit leads?

We are being challenged at this synod assembly to be active agents in the world for God's kingdom. This thing is so huge that it should capture our imagination at every turn.

Five weeks from tomorrow, we leave on our mission trip to Butler, Indiana. We will come back a changed church.

God's work. Our hands.