The Cleansing | Pastor Greg Ford Sermon | One Church Columbus

Um we're in a series right now called Symbols and uh we're taking some things that appear in the Old Testament and we're taking a deeper look at those things, not only what they are, but why they are there, and then we're looking at those through the lens of the New Testament, which is always significant, to see something that starts in the Old Testament and go, how does it carry through into the New Testament?

What is the deeper uh point behind it, and then that will help us then to work our way to the application for our lives here and now.

Uh I want to give you a little bit of like how how this message materializes and how kind of all this stuff that I'll share with you on Sundays materializes.

Um, I have a process of study and preparation.

I have a uh a researcher that helps me, and we meet 10 times a year uh for three days at a time.

So I'll block out three whole days.

I won't do any other work other than that.

We work sun up to sundown.

Uh he's actually my biological cousin, so our moms are sisters.

Uh he's a great theologian, brilliant, highly educated, and he's just fun to work with.

It's uh I feel super fortunate to have that relationship.

And it's just been a huge growing uh part of my own personal discipleship as well as his.

And it's some of my favorite work.

So because we take that time, we're able to do deep focus and deep study, and it often, you know, will set the trajectory for sermons that will come in the future.

So if we go back a year, so about a year ago, we were studying for the series that we did at the beginning of this year, which we called cover to cover.

So we're like, hey, let's, you know, we felt uh led to lead the church through the whole Bible.

And so we were taking a 10,000-foot view of the Bible, and we had challenging things.

It was a lot of work to uh frankly figure out how to do it that way.

To go, how how do you handle something as complicated as the Old Testament uh in uh you know the weeks that we had to do it?

And so we kind of kicked around a lot of how we would even you know architect structure that work.

And in the process, we kind of stumbled on this series, which ended up it didn't fit in that uh cover-to-cover series.

We just didn't have time, but we said, hey, this is really good.

We found things like the wilderness, things like the wedding and the and the um temple and the tabernacle, um, these ideas from the Old Testament, these symbols, we thought about putting in that series, but we said, you know what, let's let's do that in the fall.

So, what I'm gonna share with you today has been sort of marinating for a year or more.

And even when we scheduled it, the sermon that I scheduled to talk about today, I believe, is is timely, but this wasn't something like, hey, this week that I came up with.

This is something for a very long time I've been preparing to talk about today.

Um, it's interesting the way God will time up messages.

I I talk to people all the time who will maybe send me a message and go, hey, Pastor, thank you.

When you talked about the wilderness, you had no idea.

When you were talking about barrenness and you were talking about exile, and you were talking about testing, and you were talking about preparation.

Like this is I'm in a dry place.

I just had something stripped away from me, and so the timing couldn't be more perfect.

I think probably if all of us could raise our hand and go, there was a time that it was just too much to be coincidence.

God times something up very custom, very specific.

And then I think there's also times like today where God is intersecting something that certainly is personal, and I think he will speak to us on an individual level today.

But something that uh God was preparing our hearts and minds for and kind of putting on the calendar today that I think does meet us, not just as individuals, but as a collective, as a community, and answering some questions that we have.

And so I just want you to know that I think God's been up uh up to something.

I think he's been preparing this moment.

I encourage you to lean in.

Uh we're looking at in the Old Testament the idea of water, especially as it relates to floods and storms, and how that idea of bodies of water, the attitude uh towards water, uh, what are the lessons that start in the Old Testament move through the new?

So you're gonna see uh all throughout the Old Testament, you're gonna see uh not just water as like you know, something to drink, you're gonna see the water as a big part of the plot of the story.

Similar to the wilderness, is more than just a setting for a story.

It's it's almost like a character in the story.

It's a big part of the plot and the point of the story.

So you see it all the way from uh the flood narrative, which we're gonna look at today.

You think about the children of Israel coming out of uh Egypt, they come through the Red Sea.

We see them not only when they come out of uh bondage to Egypt, come through the Red Sea, when they go into the Promised Land, they cross the Jordan River.

Uh, of course, we know the story of Jonah, uh, and again, what happens on the seas and on the water there.

Um, you're gonna see all throughout the New Testament, water is used a lot.

Uh, by the time you get to the New Testament, there are there were a lot of priestly rituals that included water as cleansing.

Um, I did a series a few years ago called Water Works, and we looked at John 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, six consecutive chapters where water shows up in every single chapter, and so it is a very important thing.

In the ancient Near Eastern mind, particularly the Jewish people, they had this relationship to water where on one hand uh water represented this uh this need that they had all the time being in dependent independence of rain.

So without rain, we don't have crops, we don't have food, we die.

They did not live on the Nile River like the Egyptians had a 4,000-mile river.

Um they they didn't have that.

They were dependent.

That's why, again, in the Old Testament, a lot of the tension and the need in the story is around a drought.

Are we gonna make it?

It's an existential threat.

And so they had a need for water, they had a need for rain, and then but then also water represented uh terror, frankly.

Um, you see, again, it's always high drama in the New Testament.

Jesus is on the water with his disciples, and we, you know, the the raging waters are gonna kill us.

And and so you have this thing that you need to sustain your life, and yet this thing that you can't control.

So the first sort of situation that water gives us in the Bible, this is what you're gonna want to look for, is chaos.

Wilderness is for a season of dryness.

You're going, it's dry, I'm alone, I'm barren, I've had something stripped away, I've been sent to exile.

When you're there, you want a wilderness story.

You want to look at what is God doing in the wilderness, what is God saying in the wilderness.

The water stories are stories about chaos.

If you've ever been in a life situation where you don't know what to do, it's happening so fast.

You feel intense feelings, emotions are high, but in the emotion, it just feels like it's disorienting.

I almost feel like I've lost my equilibrium.

I I almost I can't feel like I can't trust my own judgment.

I don't know, am I speaking out of boldness or am I speaking out of fear?

Am I speaking because of the urging of God or am I doing this out of my flesh?

And a lot of times it's in the chaos.

We don't we don't know what what to do in a in a place of chaos.

In the flood story in Genesis, this is an interesting one to take a close look at because uh Genesis 6 is where you find the chaos of the flood, the Noah story, but really the whole thing starts.

You you got to go all the way back to the beginning.

So in Genesis 1, literally the second verse of the Bible, uh it says it brings up water.

So it says, now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep.

Okay, so the language there is saying it it the Hebrew language is chaotic nothingness.

It's a tohu vavohu.

It's it means it was like it was like nothing but chaos.

So there was you know, tangible material, but it wasn't in order.

And it said, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the water.

So you read through Genesis 1, and what does God do?

But he brings order to chaos.

So he separates the light and the darkness, and he separates the water from the sky and from the land, and and so he takes what's there and he orders it.

And of course, as he's doing that, he keeps patting himself on the back.

He's like, that was good, that was good, that was good.

Then he makes human beings, okay, which is like, here it is, man.

This is the crescendo of his creation.

I've ordered the world, I put the ecosystem in order, and now I've put human beings, and now he says it's very good.

So you have this building up from disorder to order to very good, and now it's in the hands of humans, and six chapters later, there has been an uncreation.

It's the chiastic structure, it's A, B, C, C, B, A.

It went from disorder to order to good, and now we have it in our own hands, and and flesh has taken root, and violence has taken root, and confusion has taken place, and so now what was good and in order has now gone into a almost a process of uncreation, to now it's gone back to disorder and then into chaos.

Look what it says in Genesis 6, 11.

It says, now the earth was corrupt.

Okay, the Hebrew word there that is used means basically it was ruined.

So this is there, it's used as a literary intensification structure.

So you're gonna see the word corrupt three times.

Look at this, it says, Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, it was full of violence.

God saw how corrupt the earth had become, and for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.

So it's saying ruined, ruined, ruined, and it's using the three words uh to build it up to see how much it had gone back to chaos.

So chaos, God puts it in order, it's good, we take it, and it goes and it decreation back to chaos, and and it was it's been corrupted or essentially ruined.

If you look in verse 5, it uses again a hyperbolic sentence, but it's it's an intensification structure.

It says every every thought of everybody was evil all the time.

Okay, now does that mean that there were no sweet grandmas and grandpas and there was no nice little kids and nobody ever had a good thought?

No, of course not.

What it's doing is again, it's painting a picture of chaos of human relationships.

And so what happens is in the story of the flood, the chaos of the flood mirrors the chaos of the culture.

The chaos and the destructive violence of the flood mirrors the human hearts that it takes over.

Floods are unjust.

Floods drown you, whether you're nice or mean.

They don't only drown bad people.

Floods will drown anybody who's in its way, whether uh you have a good heart or a bad heart.

And so what you see is in many ways, Genesis 6 serves as a warning that when you start to see this de uh the this decreation, you start to see things go back into chaos, catch it before it's ruined.

It's a warning that as things start to devolve, what it can boil over to the point that it gets so messy that the only way out is messy.

It gets so awful that the only way out is awful.

And when you read the flood story, it's an awful story.

You don't even want to fully think about it because of the amount of pain and suffering in the process.

So we so chaos.

Chaos, it mirrors the heart.

The flood mirrors the heart of the culture, and it serves as a warning.

Don't let it get to that point.

Of course, at the end of the flood, God makes a covenant.

I'm not gonna do that again.

But but it's something that that a an appropriate reading of that text gives us a caution when we find ourselves in that place.

Um you go into the New Testament, okay, another story of water and chaos is in Mark chapter 4.

Mark 4 · chapter mention

Mark chapter 4, you have Jesus and his disciples, and they go uh on the water, they get in a boat.

Mark 4 · chapter mention

It says in verse 37, it says, soon a fierce storm came up, high waves were breaking into the boat, and it began to fill with water.

Okay, so now again, we've got a picture of chaos.

We have an imminent threat.

Water's coming in the boat, it threatens, you know, to capsize the boat.

This this is a this is real.

Jesus was sleeping in the back of the boat with his head on a cushion.

The disciples woke him up shouting, Teacher, don't you care that we're going to drown?

At this point, don't miss any of the nuance.

Their revelation of Jesus, their understanding of Jesus was that in their time of need and threat, he is aloof and asleep.

He's conked out.

He's got his head on a cushion, and he is oblivious to the threats that are around us.

Don't, don't, notice what they say.

Don't you even care that we're going to drown?

Jesus woke up, he rebukes the wind and the waves.

Silence, be still.

Suddenly the wind stopped, and there was a great calm.

Okay, so he calms the wind and the waves.

Then they then he asked them, Why are you afraid?

Why do you still have no faith?

And look at this.

The disciples were absolutely terrified.

Notice the environment had calmed down.

The environment was quiet.

The storm in the atmosphere was peaceful, but their internal environment was still raging in a storm.

It says they were absolutely terrified.

Who is this man?

They asked each other.

Even the wind and the waves obey him.

And so this is what you have to get from the story, because I think we this story is very easy to miss the what is uh the most important point here.

If you're not careful, you take this story and you create an expectation that God is gonna go around shutting down all the thunder and lightning and the raging wind all the time.

And that is not that that is not the promise of the Bible.

That is not saying that all of the external, exterior storms are going to are going to die down uh because you love Jesus and Jesus loves you.

That's not what the Bible delivers.

That's not even what the point of the story is.

The point of the story is that a revelation of Jesus deals with the storm inside of you.

So you have the juxtaposition of Jesus who has uh a raging storm, water coming in the boat, we are have an imminent threat, and Jesus has his head on a pillow.

So at peace, he's asleep.

And the disciples, when all of the exteriors had been dealt with, still had an internal storm inside.

And so the reality is again, just like the flood mirrored at the heart of the culture or the people, this story is dealing with the storm inside the disciples.

Their fear wasn't just on the thunder and lightning, it was everything going on in the world around them.

It was their relationship to the Romans, it was the oppression of the Romans, it was here we are back in bondage again.

Are you serious?

Again, it's been our whole history.

It was that even within our own people, we're not on the same page.

We have five different camps of belief that are all at odds with each other.

Forget the Romans, we can't get on the same page.

The Pharisees and the Sadducees don't like each other, the Herodians and the Essenes and the zealots who are saying, We've got to, we've got to fight, we gotta fight, we gotta get violent.

Eventually they do become violent themselves.

And so you have the disciples who are caught in the storm between Rome and their upbringing and their culture and and all the conversations of people trying to find out what Jesus thought and they don't know what to believe.

What do I believe about Yahweh?

What should I believe about the Messiah?

If he's so powerful, then how come we're here?

And what about these unfulfilled promises?

They have inside, they have thunder and lightning and wind and water coming in the boat, and so this is an internal.

So what we have in a promise from Jesus is not that he's going to go shut down all of the storms of life, that all of the externals will be dealt with.

It is a promise that no matter how intense the storm might be, that we have access to the peace that passes all understanding, to guard our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

It's possible to be in a storm with Jesus and not have a correct revelation of Jesus and remain terrified.

It's at the revelation of Jesus and who he is that now I'm able to find peace in the middle of turmoil.

I told you at the beginning of this, this sermon's been sitting here for a year.

I didn't come up with this this week.

I didn't come up with this this summer.

This is something that God has been brewing.

The reality is it's been a bad summer.

There's been a lot of really awful things that have happened.

You look around, okay, you if you have a cell phone and you have any app at all, you you see things going on.

There have been uh everything from shootings in schools.

Uh we live in a day now where there's more video than ever before.

And so not only do we hear about it in the headlines, we see it played back.

In many ways, it feels like Genesis 6, violence.

And it's all over.

I mean, it's I mean, back in June, there was a uh a man posing as a police officer goes into the home of a politician, a gunner down in her own home, shoot her husband who survived.

But I mean, it's just awful violence.

A manifesto of 70 people they were targeting.

You have you have this week we see we see uh a political activist gunned down with his family there, people uh around, you know, and and and dead, and it's and it's all over the internet.

It's stuff that you just I mean you're not supposed to see.

Uh there are children in Colorado, kids in a school in the shooter.

We see uh shooter in public transit.

Uh you know, again, this summer there uh uh a Catholic church in in Minnesota attacked, um uh in a Jewish community center attacked.

And so you see these things and you see the turmoil, and every single one of them, in and of itself, it's like it's like a hundred conversations that we're trying to have all at one time.

Chaos.

Chaos.

You see it, you feel intense.

There is anger, there is sadness, there is fear, and there are people that see each of these things differently.

We can always see the hypocrisy in the other person much more clearly than we can see in the mirror.

Often we don't want to look in the mirror, it's a lot easier to look out the window and look at other people.

And in the process, there is complication to all of this, and and and we don't know what to do.

You're in a storm, you're in a flood.

I I don't know.

Should I what is the bold thing?

Should I say something?

Should I be quiet and steady?

But when I'm quiet, I feel like a coward.

But when I speak up, I I don't know if it's just me getting caught up in my flesh and emotion.

I don't know what's the right thing to do.

Chaos, chaos.

I'm in a storm.

I see the water coming in, the threats are real.

I feel what I feel.

What do I do?

What's the right thing to do?

And what do you do in chaos?

Philippians 4 says, Don't let your anxiety take over your life.

That's another way to say, be anxious for nothing.

It said, but in everything, in other words, when the water's coming in the boat, when the culture's out of control, when you can feel it, when you can feel it decreating, when you can feel the corruption and it feels like it's being ruined, it says, be anxious for nothing, pray about everything.

Tell God what you need, make your petition to God, thank him for what he's done.

In other words, play back the replay of his faithfulness.

And then it said, in your revelation of Jesus, just like the disciples had in the storm, then the peace that passes all understanding.

In other words, the water's still coming in and the storm is still raging, but somehow I have a peace that transcends understanding, will guard, stand guard of your internal environment, your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

So, what do we do with the flood?

What do we do with the storm and the chaos that ensues?

Is that before we say or do anything, we don't operate out of fear, we don't operate out of anger, we don't operate out of rage, we don't even operate out of sadness.

What we do is we come to God and we invite Jesus in, and it's in a revelation of Jesus, in a revelation of Jesus that we see more clearly, that we find a place of peace, we find a place of confidence, and then we march out of that.

And I would say this more than ever.

And church, I know not all of you uh have given me the role of pastor in your life, and so if if that's the case, then just tune out this next part.

But if you have given me the honor of being your pastor, allow me to pastor you for just a moment.

And what I'm inviting you to do is to say this you're a human, just like everybody.

Else in the world.

And in these process, these complicated situations and everything that's going on, there are some areas we all agree, there's a lot of areas of disagreement, confusion, and chaos.

That is something you're going to feel on a human level, but we have an advantage and we have a responsibility as the body of Christ to not operate in the flesh, to not operate out of fear and anger, but to operate out of peace and love.

And how do we do that?

I'm I only do that with a revelation of Jesus.

I don't do that with my flesh.

My emotion does not take me there.

My fear does not take me there.

I have to, we either believe this stuff or we don't.

It either just sounds cool in a song or it or it works in the real world.

And we have a responsibility as the body of Christ to find our stability on Christ, the solid rock, to come back to that foundation of peace.

I invite you to do that.

The second thing that we get from the water picture symbol of the Old Testament into the new is the word cleansing.

Cleansing.

And the flood story is one of those stories that we get so caught up in the violence leading up to it, and even the violence of the flood itself that we miss this beautiful picture of the meta-narrative of the Bible.

So when we did the series cover to cover, I did a week on the meta-narrative.

The meta-narrative of the Bible, the overarching story of the Bible is creation, fall, redemption, restoration.

And when you look at the flood story, we see that.

You see that again, the decreation that came down to essentially corruption and it's ruined and it's violent and it's it's gotten so messy, the only way out is messy.

You have a flood that comes in as judgment, and then that judgment leads to a new beginning and a new opportunity.

Now, when I say judgment, that's a that's a nasty word in our world and our culture, and to be frank with you, it got its reputation for good reason.

I don't want you judging me because I don't really trust your judging skills.

Uh for a few reasons.

One is because we tend to, as human beings, render verdicts with limited evidence.

At least uh in court, supposedly, I get uh proper hearing.

At least you all the evidence is there until I rest my case.

And what you know, whatever you do with that, you do with it.

But like in the like real world, a lot of people just come up with verdicts on partial information, especially if it confirms what they already wanted to know anyway.

Uh I've had people make judgments about me, and frankly, unfortunately, I've made judgments about them based on, well, that's all I needed to hear.

So my concern is that you're gonna come up with a final verdict about me based on partial information, or you only saw what I did, you didn't know how I got there.

You didn't know what was going on inside, you don't know how it led up, and that may not even condone what I did or said, but you have no idea the backstory.

So we do that to each other all the time.

It's it's awful, right?

But we do.

So I don't want, I don't trust you to you know ask all the right questions and maybe even care enough to dig deep enough to get more information.

Uh that's one of the reasons I don't want you judging me.

The second is because when humans judge each other, often we won't let the other person live it down.

So now it's like, okay, boom, I slammed the gavel on you, and that's it for you.

And not only did it cost me our relationship, but I have no idea how many people you went and talked to.

And how many other relationships it cost me.

Have you ever been in that position?

You knew you had it out with so-and-so, but you went in another room and they're treating you weird now, and you're like, what were you guys talking about?

So, so what did you say about me here?

And I don't even know, I can't even define reality.

I don't even know what all is going on.

So I'm I'm curious what all's floating around about me.

I know some you guys don't gossip and whatever, but first service, they do it a lot.

Third service, not as not as much, but you guys, I this is so this this will play better in third, but you get the idea that what we tend to do, limited information, we make a final judgment, we don't let the person live it down, we reduce them, we push them down beneath us.

And so, because of our experiences with this, and we came to these conclusions for good reason because this is how we tend things tend to go, when we see the judgment of God, we we we tend to think that's what that's like.

And the reality is the judgment of God follows the meta-narrative, it's always about redemption and restoration.

Even in the story of the flood, at in uh Genesis 8, um, verse 11, as the waters are beginning to subside, in other words, the the the judge, the the the judgment of the the flood is now starting to go down.

Uh Noah sends out a dove and it returns to him with a fresh leaf in its beak.

In other words, new life has begun.

And if you follow the story through chapter 9, they come out of the ark and now uh it's it's a new, it's a redemption and a restoration and a new season.

When you think about God's judgment, it's not about condemnation.

In other words, about being able to slam a verdict and now I can never live it down.

The judgment of God is about bringing the truth to light so that we can see the truth, however ugly it may be, so that we can deal with the truth, not so that we can live in perpetual shame and condemnation, but so that it can be cleansed, healed, forgiven, and now it opens the door to a new season, a new opportunity, and what God is leading you into next.

Okay, so so you got you have to totally reframe the judgment of God as condemnation.

There's therefore no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.

I think the most, I think, I think probably my favorite, I don't know if it's the best, but I think it's the best.

Story of this is in the New Testament, John chapter 4 is the woman at the well.

John 4 · chapter mention

I'm running out of time, so I'm gonna summarize it.

Jesus shows up in the heat of the day, and this woman's at the well.

Why does she go at noon?

Well, that's loaded because women went to draw water early before the heat of the day, because who wants to be out here sweating while we're getting water, so they all go.

But the problem with that is then everybody's there.

So if you want to avoid everybody, you go at noon because I would rather deal with being sweaty than have to deal with all the side eye and the side conversations with these people.

So I'm gonna go actually at the worst time so that I can be left alone.

And so she's there, uh, she's the talk of the town, Jesus shows up, and they begin a conversation.

And there's really no other way to say it other than Jesus judges the heck out of her.

He's like, hey, where's your husband?

She's like, I don't have one.

He's like, no kidding.

He's like, you've had five.

Like it's some judgy stuff, right?

You're like, who do you think you are?

Uh he's like, yeah, you've had five.

And and the implications are so clear.

It's like, I mean, you're over five.

I mean, it couldn't have been them every time.

I mean, I know it was the first guy, it was all him, but the second, and then the third.

Like, at what point are you gonna take a little bit of ownership here?

And let's just say they are all scumbags.

Why are you picking five consecutive scumbags?

And by the way, you're with a guy now, you're about to mess that one up too.

Some judgy stuff.

Then it sort of falls into a conversation about theology, the ceremonial law.

They start talking about worship and God, and she's like, Okay, I get it.

I get where you're coming from, okay?

You think that you have to go to Jerusalem and worship God in Jerusalem, and my people worship in the mountains, and we just have it's it's different.

And Jesus goes, See, you you you don't understand.

I I don't care where you worship.

God's a spirit, and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

By the end of the conversation, he has judged her so well.

Through a process of cleansing, she's had a clearer view of God, a clearer view of herself.

By the end of the story, at the end of this thorough judging that Jesus had done, she runs back to town and says, tells everybody, You gotta come meet this guy.

He told me everything I ever did.

That's scary.

What do you mean he told everything you ever did?

He judged me so thoroughly, and yet he did not condemn me.

In the process of judging, he took me through a process of cleansing and healing.

And in the process, I started to realize why I keep picking the wrong relationships, why I keep showing up wrong in relationships.

I not only had a clear revelation of who God actually is, I now have a revelation of who Jesus is, which gives me a clear picture of God.

Now I'm seeing things in myself that had been quicksand that I was stuck in.

I've been I've been stuck in behaviors.

I have blind spots that now my eyes are open to, and the truth is setting me free, and I want the same for you.

So what do we see?

That at the well, similar to the flood, we see the meta-narrative.

Yes, there is a fall, yes, there is a mistake, yes, there is sin, but the judgment of God is never to drown us in condemnation.

The judgment of God is to bring truth to light so that He can purify it, so that He can purify us, so that He can forgive us, so that He can cleanse us, so that we can deal with these things that have had us bound and trapped and stuck, and now I'm unstuck.

And now I'm ready for a new beginning and a restoration.

So I believe that we're in a moment in time, not only as a collective, although I think we all can feel the intensity of the world around us.

For many of you, yeah, you're aware of the headlines, but frankly, maybe the biggest chaos in your life is inside your own home.

It's maybe something that's hit so close to home that it's all you think about.

What do we do in the chaos?

In the chaos, we have a revelation of Jesus.

We don't allow anxiety to rule our lives, we don't allow fear to rule our lives.

We find our confidence and our peace in a revelation of Jesus, and the peace that passes all understanding will guard your heart and mind in Christ Jesus, and whatever you say or don't say, whatever you do or don't do that flows out of that will be ultimately following what God is leading you to do.

And so we take the chaos, we turn to Jesus, we find inner peace.

We take the flood, the cleansing, the judgment, and we don't become discouraged in judgment.

We we go through the process of being as honest and truthful as we can.

We we have the courage to bring the truth to light because we know that the truth will set us free through a process of cleansing.

And so today I want to take a moment.

I've got one more thing to share with you before we call it a day.

But I want to take a moment.

I've asked our team to sing a song on this topic, and I just want you to take a moment to sit back, reflect, turn to the Lord right now, just like the woman at the well had a revelation of Jesus, and the disciples in Mark 4 had a revelation of Jesus.

Allow Jesus to reveal himself to you today and bring you peace.