The Movement in Context: The Verbs of Your Life

     I have spent a lot of time this semester studying syntax and morphology, learning English grammar in order to learn Greek. Between my Greek and Hermeneutics classes I am sure quickly becoming proficient in understanding where meaning is and where it can be found. My Hermeneutics professor, who wears a bow-tie, says that you have to "dance with the verbs" and in order to help us remember he put on some Michael Bublé and started dancing. He did all this to emphasize our attentiveness to the verbal phrases within a text or passage of text.

     The verse above is from Matthew 25:26, 27, this is a verse we have been working with for a couple of weeks now and will be for the remainder of the semester. If you pay attention to the blue highlighted selection. Now focus on the color boxed words. Those are the parent verbal ideas and they cause the major movement in the text. The yellow highlighted words are words (conjunctions)  on which the verbal ideas hinge. 

 HERE IS MY POINT: 

      I truly believe that God called us to GO and to do His love in action!!!!!!!!! It tells us this at the end of Matthew 28:16-20, but I also think He left us with a manual on how we should go. God showed us how to GO when He presented us with His gospel, throughout you can find thousands of principles by which to live an "in the light" kind of life (1John1:7). Pay attention to the verbs of your life, the goings and comings. What does it say about you, what doesn't it say about you? Where are the verbs of your life taking you? 

      Spiritual growth, spiritual formation, wisdom in the Lord all happen in the verbs of our lives. When you are filling your life with the God honoring, diligent, persevering kind of verbs, God is going to allow His spirit to move through you and overflow into every other part of your life. Try it sincerely, and see what happens!