Paul was telling his people all those traditions have been laid. To keep in touch with heaven’s calling on our lives, we must take hold of the true source, Jesus, the head of the body. If you don’t, you will find yourself beached and back on shore.”Ĭatching the wave is not like looking for the next fad, the next big idea, or some program that other churches are doing and seems to be working for them. Then you catch the next wave and ride it. You catch the first wave and you ride it until the next wave comes in. I asked a pastor friend years ago how he was able to keep his ministry alive and fresh. Your waterfall of weeping sent waves of sorrow over my soul, carrying me away, cascading over me like a thundering cataract … Through the night I sing his songs, for my prayer to God has become my life.” In Psalm 42:7-8 (TPT), he cries, “My deep need calls out to the deep kindness of your love. “Deep calls unto deep.” These are familiar words from David. It’s like our heart flutters with his compassion. We cry out for more of Jesus, to be filled to overflowing with his comforting love, and we want to experience a deepening friendship with the Holy Spirit. Turning loose of what they knew and taking hold of the One they should know about - for them, it would be like jumping into the deep sea without a life jacket. He was pointing to the One whom they were to follow. He was unearthing the very ground his people had walked on for 2,000 years. To paraphrase Paul, “You’ve laid the foundation, now it’s time to break out of your comfortable traditions of following the law and move in the Spirit of Jesus.”
Change brings fear - fear we might become an oddity - so we stay in a safe place. Why? Because people are too comfortable in the way it is.
“Let us go on.” Paul sounded like a heretic when he explained to the Hebrews that they needed to go on.
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