Leah Ramirez

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Creation is not groaning for a passive Church.

Creation is groaning for the revealing of the sons of God.

The answer is not arrogance.

The answer is union.

The Son did nothing apart from the Father, and yet storms obeyed Him, graves opened before Him, and demons fled at His word.

When a yielded people carry the voice of the Lord, heaven moves through earth.

The invitation is open.

Let the sons arise.

How delightful is this?

“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, ‘Do it again’; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony.

But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, ‘Do it again’ to the sun; and every evening, ‘Do it again’ to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them.

It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”

-GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy

I think many of us have felt it.

We love Jesus. We believe the Gospel. We know there is more. But we have not always had language for what the “more” actually is.

More than attending church.

More than waiting for rescue.

More than trying to be good Christians.

More than praying from the outside of the story and asking God to do something somewhere far away from us.

There is a deeper invitation in Christ.

Union.

Priesthood.

Maturity.

Authority that flows from abiding.

A people who do not merely believe the message, but become a habitation for the message.

This week’s Substack builds out Sunday’s message from Chris on The War of the World: A Biblical Understanding of Ecclesiology. It is not just about “the Church” as an institution. It is about the Ekklesia as the body of Christ in the earth — beholding, abiding, seated with Him, and sent by Him.

And I want to say this clearly: in the next couple of weeks, we are going to launch something through Company 318 that I believe will be the equipping many of you have been searching for.

Not hype. Not more content for the sake of content.

Formation.

Scripture.

Language.

A place to slow down and be strengthened in union with Christ, the Melchizedek priesthood, maturity, and biblical authority.

I really believe this is part of what the Lord has been preparing us for.

Read this week’s Substack here:

The War of the World A Biblical Understanding of Ecclesiology

I think one of the great tensions for the Church right now is that many of us only know two options.

Either we live passively, waiting for God to do everything while we call it humility.

Or we live presumptuously, trying to do things for God and calling it authority.

But Jesus shows us another way.

He says, “The Son can do nothing of His own accord, but only what He sees the Father doing.”

That is not weakness.

That is perfect union.

Jesus was not passive. He healed the sick, raised the dead, spoke to storms, cast out demons, confronted systems, forgave sins, and announced the Kingdom.

But He did none of it from independence.

He lived from the Father.

This is the invitation for us, too.

Not striving.

Not hiding.

Not performing.

Not waiting around as though Christ has not placed His own Spirit within us.

And not rushing ahead as though spiritual authority means we can do whatever we want.

The invitation is surrendered participation.

To behold Him.

To abide in Him.

To live seated with Him.

And then to be sent from that place.

I think the Lord is teaching us again what real authority feels like. It is not loud because it is insecure. It is not passive because it is afraid. It is steady because it is hearing Him.

And when the voice of the Lord rises in a yielded people, creation itself begins to listen.