September 13, 2015
Week 2
The Scripture
We don’t just put up with our limitations; we celebrate them, and then go on to celebrate every strength, every triumph of the truth in you. We pray hard that it will all come together in our lives.
2nd Corinthians 13:9
The Message
The Spiritual Focus
A ReStored Spirit changes the lens through which we live into our limitations.
The Devotion
Returning to our mats or to any situation that we haven’t visited for awhile, can bring us face to face with our limitations. Stepping back on our mats we find new muscles and perhaps changes in our joints or mobility. Coming back to a situation we have been away from, promises to bring changes, some changes open doors and some don’t. Yoga and faith practices teach that when we hit places of limitation, physically, emotional or spiritually we can find new strength. The strength is in being put back together in a new way that remembers the original state of being. In yoga it is adapting an asana to accommodate something that doesn’t feel right in our bodies. In faith it might be looking at something different as a new way to grow in faith. The word restore is a medical term that means to literally to put back in joint, come together.
In the 2nd letter to the Corinthians Paul goes a step farther and says our limitations are to be celebrated because the restoration is God’s work, and that is what we celebrate.
Whether we are at that place of celebrating our limitations or not, and most of us are not, we do have a promise that our limitations do not have the ultimate authority. When we are aware of our limitations, we see things through a different lens, we see a new path, a path that moves us beyond our perceived limits.
God putting us back together, restored, is for our sake and the sake of life together. That is our prayer!
