The Life Gauges through postures

Our understanding and discussion of the Life Gauges can be helped by practicing their associated postures.

HUMILITY
Fall to your knees. Bow before God. Raise your hands to the sky. This is a posture of humility. It’s a posture of surrender—we are thoroughly defeated by overwhelming love.
Confession: God is great. God is good. And God is near.

RESPONSIBILITY
Extend your arms forward with open hands, palms up, in a posture to receive. Now pull your arms toward your body and close your hands in a posture of grasping, taking hold.
Confession: Good stewards of God’s grace.

ACCLIMATION
Stand facing one direction, then turn 180 degrees and face the other direction. Reject what the world says about you (and others) and how the world wants you to live. Turn and accept what God says about you (and others) and the way of life he offers. This is a picture of ongoing repentance.
Confession: People like us do things like this.

IMITATION
Return to your ending posture of DISCIPLINE—grasping hands close to the body. Now reverse the DISCIPLINE posture, extending your arms forward, opening your hands and turning your palms upward. This is a posture of release, of generosity. Freely we have received. Now, we freely give.
Confession: We so love the world that we give.

MISSION
Extend your arms forward as if reaching around a barrel, about to give a bear hug. This is a posture of gathering—guiding people to the life they were created to live. It’s acting as a shepherd—corralling people into a place of acceptance and shalom.
Confession: Our story for God’s glory.

The Life Gauges have a priority

1. HUMILITY | Worship God

2. RESPONSIBILITY | Attach to Jesus

3. ACCLIMATION | Live from the Kingdom

4. IMITATION | Love the world

5. MISSION | Persuade others

The Life Gauges have a priority. Worship supports the weight of all the others. Ministry is supported by all the others. In Matthew 4:19, Jesus says “Come follow me and I will make you fishers of men”. His command is not “Come be fishers of men”. His command is “Come follow me.”

As we encounter him,
He forms us,
And we express.

For a lifetime, our greatest concern must be our posture of worship and our connection to Jesus. Only then can we have confidence in our spiritual formation and ministry expression.

Approaching Greatness

I journey His Greatness
to trembling’s door.

There
meet His Goodness greeting:

"Do not fear, my child.
Approach
my throne with confidence.”

My Father is fear extinguished;
Perfect Peace is my reward.