Separated but Connected

Ephesians 2:12-13 (NIV)
".......remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ."
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Because of a business trip to San Antonio, Texas I was separated from my family.

But I found a way to make a connection. Before I left I discovered on the internet, a web camera that points down to the corner of Houston and Navarro. I called my wife and said, "Get on the internet at 10:15 AM. I will stand on the corner and you should be able to see me."

So I walked to the corner of Houston and Navarro in downtown San Antonio and stood and looked up at this camera hoping that my family was watching. I felt a little silly with people who were going about their business and here I was looking at a camera six stories above me, hoping it was working.

We do the same thing every Sunday morning but with a better promise. We are separated from God. We sit in our building while people drive by outside going about their business.

Our connection is through Jesus.

Jesus say in John 14:6 "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

In Matthew 18:20 it reads, "For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them."

And Paul writes in Romans 8: 38 –39 about how we cannot be separated from God. "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

I felt alone on the corner of Houston & Navarro, but in fellowship with other Christians, God has promised to be among us.

Let us celebrate that connection.