The Call to Get Going - People of the Spirit

WORD 2day: Monday, 2nd week in Easter time

April 28, 2025 - Acts 4: 23-31; John 3: 1-8

We have just concluded the Easter Octave and are entering into a new week. The Word this week is going to point us towards one overarching message: Get Going! The apostles and the disciples were so stuck with the disappointments from the past or the surprise of the present, that they could not concentrate on, "what next". Jesus had to call them to get going, and to be born again, to resume in the Spirit, to start anew in the Lord. 

What did Jesus mean by his call to the apostles and disciples to get going... it is to receive the Holy Spirit, to be renewed in the Spirit, to be created anew in the Paraclete, that they may take the message of Christ, the message that Christ was, to the entire world. That is what happens there. 

To be filled with Holy Spirit and to proclaim the Word with courage and prophecy, is the next step to which the Lord bid the apostles to get going, and the Word of God leaves us with the same challenge to - to be renewed in the Spirit, to take what the Spirit inspires with seriousness, and take the message of Christ, and the message that Christ is, to the world around us. 

The next phase of the Eastertide shall tend to prepare us towards becoming people who get going towards an ongoing maturity in our call of faith. Let us keep our hearts and minds open these days to the Word which shall urge us towards this next phase of our Christian call, to get going towards our personal and collective maturity in faith.