Rivers of Renewal: Our Collective Hope and Vision | Jean Park | "From the Pit to the Palace" - Implication #2: Deep Life Change, Genesis 37

This past Sunday, Jean continued our Rivers of Renewal series by speaking from Genesis 37.2-5 on the second implication of renewal: deep-life change.Jean began by exhorting us as a community to heed God's invitation to face the reality of our souls because in so doing we not only live the life we were meant to live but also, become conduits of God's living water to a hurting world. Jean showed us from the life of Joseph, who finds himself involuntarily in a pit, that we also can find ourselves in metaphorical pits from generational sins and wounds dealt by those around us. When we are in the pit, we have a choice: 1) will we give ourselves over to pity or 2) will we find the purpose in the hard? We find freedom from the pit not through our own effort and activity but by experiencing Jesus' intimate presence protecting and rescuing us. In addition, we believe from 2 Peter 2.9-10, that Jesus not only brings us up out of the pit but also brings us into the Palace of God's presence.May we live deeply into God's loving presence today and this weekend!