Today, Pastor Beatrice Kang gave a passionate persuasion to not ignore God’s assignment to believers. Resurrection Sunday may be over, but Resurrection Life has only begun - not for some of us but for all of us who know Jesus. We cannot allow ourselves to a BAU existence with a ritualized Christian life that departs from a lifestyle that reflects the missional Kingdom mandate.

Have you ever followed a drama series or watched a movie with twists and turns that kept you spellbound to the end, only to reach an anti-climactic conclusion. By then, you have invested too much emotionally to shrug it off, wondered why you failed to see it coming, what you had misinterpreted along the way, and how the ending made you feel so cheated.

When Jesus gathered His disciples – not one, not three but all twelve – to have a final meal with Him before His death, there was no ambiguity that it would be their last supper together because He told them, “I have been very eager to eat this Passover meal with you before My suffering begins. For I tell you now that I won’t eat this meal again until its meaning is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God.”

Are you facing something in your life that is so difficult and disheartening that you are ready to throw in the towel? Don’t give up yet! Broken hearts, broken dreams, broken relationships, broken communication, and broken trust all need our attention because they don’t become useless when they are broken. You could be running an outdated OS that is inadequate for tackling the current issue at hand.

If you see yourself like driftwood, let God repurpose your personal mission as a lifeboat – first for yourself, and then for those around you.

When your head is buried in the ground, you’re stuck in a mental framework that keeps you from seeing any progress so that it looks like a dead-end and a road block everywhere you turn.

Give yourself a break. When you are exhausted, you can rest to recharge. But when you are feeling emptied and burned-out, rest becomes less effective for your recovery to a previous functional state.