Living In the Kingdom/Living Out the Kingdom: Connection to God

For the past five years I’ve spent a week at Camp Widjiitiwin (www.mycamp.ca) either as the camp pastor, or bringing youth up from Hamilton’s inner city.  It’s always been a wonderful time of ministry, but incredibly tiring!  One thing about Camp Widjiitiwin is that the cell reception is spotty at best!  There are very few spots on the camp ground where you can get a clear signal so staying in contact with the outside world is tough to do.  Sometimes parents would get frustrated because they hadn’t heard from me, or seen many pictures of their child having fun doing camp things.  Without a clear signal, or a strong connection, it’s hard to stay connected.

Jesus was perfectly in contact with His Heavenly Father while He was on earth.  Jesus was perfectly in tune with who God was and what He wanted Jesus to do. In John 5:16-30, Jesus says that He only does what He sees His Father doing, and that He can do nothing apart from God.  As we’re called to follow Jesus, and continue His work of serving others, calling them to repentance and pointing them to God, we need to follow Jesus’ example of being connected to God.  Without this connection it will be hard to know what we’re to do, and how we’re to do it.  Come out this Sunday evening as we look at how we can keep this connection strong.

Pastor Mike