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I have a friend who says, when he’s musing about a situation he doesn’t quite have a handle on, “I wonder what God is up to here.” He’s cultivated the habit of expecting God to show up precisely in the quirky, messy events that don’t make sense – the situations that don’t seem to compute.
If we assume the Spirit is present and at work among us, then whatever comes up – whatever conflicts, uncertainties, losses, confusions – we can begin to notice how God works. God works under pseudonyms. The answer we get when we wonder where God is is just the same as Jesus’ answer when Andrew asked where he was staying so he could find and follow him: “Come and see.”
If we come, he’ll enable us to see. To “come and see” is to walk in trust, expecting to be surprised, receptive to divine invitations. If we [come], I believe we will begin to recognize the kingdom of God here and now, even under the scarred, bloody surfaces of human affairs – hidden but, paradoxically, always in the process of revealing itself.
This message is excerpted from “Epiphany is divine disclosure” by Marilyn McEntyre in the January/February 2022 Gather magazine. Today is the Second Sunday after Epiphany. Today we commemorate the Confession of Peter. This is the first day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.