For the parent who lost the shoe-and-cereal-and-socks war this morning before they ever got to the building. Sunday morning at home is not always a quiet thing. If today started with a fight about cereal nobody wanted to eat, or about a child who was supposed to be in the van by now and is somehow upstairs without socks on — hear this. You are not less spiritual because the family was loud on the way out the door. You are about to walk into a room and serve people who had a similar morning. The Spirit can use what you carried in.

Anchored in Hebrews 13:20-21 — the closing benediction of the book of Hebrews. "Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus, make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight."

Notice what the writer does not say. He does not say "try harder to do good works." He says "may the God of peace make you complete, working in you that which is well pleasing." That is a passive verb. The God of peace works in you. You are the location. He is the actor.

The same God who raised the Great Shepherd from the dead is at work in you today. He is not waiting for you to perform. He is working in you. Right now. In the van that is too loud. In the booth that is too quiet. In the moment between the end of the prelude and the first downbeat.

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