Today I miss Jesus.

The Body of Christ can be sticky and ugly sometimes when we forget about Jesus. So many times I find it easy to get lost in the talking about nothingness that Kingdom Work seems to have fallen off the map. It’s as if talking about family vacations, potty training, pets, new home repair projects, and a whole other list of things takes the spotlight to the things God is doing all around us.

I miss sitting amongst a group of believers whom want nothing more than Jesus.

I miss talking about Jesus and sharing about Jesus and being obsessed with Jesus so much in conversation that you leave the conversation with an even greater hunger for Him than when you started.

I miss the edifying speech that supernaturally overflows amongst friends who are seeking Jesus in their lives.

How come it feels like those people have fallen off the planet in some churches?

How come it feels like those people have left the Bible Study table?

How come it feels like Bible Study and Fellowships are less and less about Jesus and more and more about some created agenda, two second devotion amid small talk, or fake prayer requests as a means of venting home-life frustrations?

I am not trying to be critical for the sake of being critical. There really is a point here.

Have we found we have been traveling for days with our friends and neighbors only to panic after three days realizing we left Jesus behind in the city? How terrifying to realize that we have gone through the motions of Christianity and been traveling for days, or even longer, without the Savior?

How can you too make the Mary and Joseph u-turn to go back for Christ?

God has been challenging me with this for a while.

And I just miss Jesus.