The Parables of Jesus | An Invitation to Unravel | Matthew 9:14-17 | Week 7

Pastor Yvonne Biel  ---  Have you ever felt like your life was unraveling?  As if all the threads that held your life together at one point were coming undone.  I've been there.  I woke up at age 27 in my high school bedroom looking at a calendar with absolutely nothing to do.  I was thinking back on a time in my life where Jesus seemed to make sense, and I knew who God made me to be.  I was living as a missionary in Vienna, Austria, teaching students the Bible and they were coming to me with their questions about Him.  Each day I was praying the gospel over me.  I was so confident and I knew who I was and I knew who God created me to be.  But, I was back in Michigan longing for some answers.  I found myself listening to an album called "The Undoing."  It felt like all these ways that I interacted with God were coming undone.  I picked up a book called "Thrashing About with God" because that what it felt like.  I didn't understand, necessarily, how to interact with Him, and I felt like He was calling me into a new season, to just learn how to BE with Him.  But I didn't know how to do that.  I just really hoped, and I wished, and I wanted to go back to a season where things made sense, where I knew how to interact with Him.  But I found myself in this place of unraveling.  

Maybe you've found yourself there.  Maybe it was a season where you left your structure, your home, and your community environment and went off to college.  Then you start asking all these questions about faith, and about who you are, and what you're suppose to do with the rest of your life.  That can be a place of unraveling.  Maybe it was in the middle of your life where there's a death of a loved one, and you don't know how to act, or be, or function without them.  Maybe it's a loss of a job; you were so confident in that place and now it's gone.  Maybe it happens even later in your life and you've finished your season of work and you entered into a new season called retirement, and you think, "God, I don't know what to do now and it's not what I used to do..."