Sunday, April 27
Rise up, go out into the valley, and there I will speak with you.
—Ezekiel 3:22b
In the movie The Matrix, Trinity says to herself at a particularly vulnerable moment, "Get up, Trinity, get up. Get up!" It's just what she needs to wake her from her paralysis and move her to safety. Like Trinity, when we feel disconnected with the pulse of life, two words can waken us from our lackluster stupor.
Those two words slide in through the tiny gaps of our consciousness,
"Get up, get up." Then they come a little louder and a little stronger, "Get up!
Get up!" We begin to pull ourselves up and climb once again. Off in the near
distance, beyond the pale of our paltry lives, we glimpse a holy space—a space
prepared for us by heaven, a space where the words of heaven will alter our
lives forever.
It's motivation enough to get us moving steadily forward to reach
that space that waits so longingly for us.
O God, strengthen me to rouse myself from weariness and come to meet you in the valley of delight.
The Signposts for April are written by Renée Miller and originally appeared on explorefaith.org in May 2004.