
A Noise-Canceling New Year
Mike Smith
January 2, 2022
Luke 10:25-37; Mark 1:35-39
A question for 2022: What does love require of me?
Luke 10:25–37 Parable of the Good Samaritan
The problem isn’t a lack of CONCERN, but a lack of MARGIN. We are too busy or distracted to love well.
“Sometimes quiet is violent” –– Tyler Joseph
“You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.” – Dallas Willard
If I am to love well, I must reduce the noise LOW ENOUGH and LONG ENOUGH to face what is real.
POSTURE PRAYER (adapted from Danielle Strickland)
A Posture of Surrender – I confess my natural human posture is to fight for my right and to make something happen. But I choose as a disciple of Jesus a posture of surrender. My life is not my own. God take charge.
A Posture of Generosity – I confess my natural human posture is to take, it’s to hold, it’s to keep. But I choose as a disciple of Jesus to open my hands in a posture of generosity. Freely I have received.
A Posture of Mission – I confess my natural human posture is to spectate, it’s to critique, it’s to say, “it’s not my problem.” But I choose as a disciple of Jesus to open up my life and say to this world, to say to the lost, and to say to the least, “Here I am.”