Returning to Routine

From the series Never Going Back

They wanted to go back. Back to normal. Back to what they knew. Back to 9-5 and the routine that came with
it. Back to their former way of living. This is where we find God’s people in Numbers 14. They had begged God to
remove the distractions and the idolatry. To release them from this mundane and mediocre life without
purpose. And when God made a way to release them from Egypt, they begged to go back. They began to
romanticize what they once knew because the unknown required a trust in God that they were majorly
lacking. And it is so easy for us to do the same. For so many, we’ve prayed for opportunities to sacrifice and
truly live. We’ve prayed for idols to fall, and for God to break down our normal ways of doing things and to
challenge our faith. And that time has come. As a church, we are never going back to never really living. We are
never going back to the way things have always been, because God is inviting us into a new thing that is
bigger than ourselves and bigger than a new normal. This is our stake in the ground. We are never going back.