Love Where You Live By Shauna PilgreenSample

Day Four

Where Heaven and Earth Collide

Scripture: Jeremiah 33:9

Living sent starts with thinking outside the box. Some of you are already there. Others, like me, are Type A, introverted people pleasers who choose neat and tidy over risky and messy any day of the week. Yet when we begin to think like God does and see what He sees and respond with His heart, He can take our dreams, ideas, and prayers to unparalleled places. Places where heaven and earth collide and His glory is on display.

God wants to take every part of you and use it to tell of Him. Blend it together, and we get to live in this place both confident in Him who sent us and creatively with the gifts and influence He gives. He wants to meet us in our zip code, on our street. He is ready to show us how to live sent in the place we call home. 

Dream of the what ifs with me.

What if dwellers who love Jesus become awakened to their purpose in the cities and towns and start living sent? 

What if we don’t dodge eye contact but offer a smile and an introduction? 

What if you were the one who got something started among a few colleagues or neighbors for the simple reason of getting to know one another beyond titles and house numbers? 

What if you led the PTA to make a stellar breakfast for the teachers and student body once a week? 

What if you hosted the neighborhood Christmas party? 

What if you say a private prayer at mealtime that encourages another believer to do the same? 

What if you took on the projects no one wanted at an under- resourced school? 

What if you invited the interns at your office over for dinner and shared your faith story? 

What if you prayed over an area of town and then saw God plant a church there? 

What if you were the empty nester looking toward retirement and became the president of the Rotary Club? 

Doing what you were created to do, in your current season of life, in the place you live—this is living sent. To live like you’re supposed to be there, not like you’re just passing through. 

List five “what ifs?” for your own life, neighborhood, church, school, or workplace.