30th September 2012.

Jane spoke to Luke 9:57-62 about a call to be a pilgrim people or sojourners and drew from the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles (SUKKA) where the people built booths as a reminder of the time in the wilderness and their dependence on God and his provision. This reminds us that we are not to get too settled or comfortable and that our relationship with the world needs to be balanced against our relationship with God. So although Jeremiah encourages the exiles to build houses and settle( Jer 29:5-7) our mind-set is to build as a task within a task and that our homes are just places we move out from, that God may have to push us out into the world. Jane also makes the point that God does not live in a house made by human hands and where Jesus tabernacled for a while with us (John 1:14) and that our human bodies are only temporary tents ( 2 Cor 5:1,4)and then highlighted some of the implications of the kind of relationship with God this reality brings about.

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