Monday, April 20, 2020
God’s Eternal Word has Broken into This That We Know.
Genesis 18:19
For I have chosen him [Abraham], that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice; so that the Lord may bring about for Abraham what the Lord has promised him.
Romans 6:22
Now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life.
Words of Grace For Today
Wikipedia provides that ‘Sanctification is the act or process of acquiring sanctity, of being made or becoming holy.’
We believe firmly that only God can make us holy. We cannot act to become, or enter a process of becoming holy. Sanctification is a gift given at Baptism. Thereafter one chooses in each minute/choice to act out of being holy, or not; and truth is we all act out of both all the time, simultaneously.
As generations rise and pass, we may well charge the successive generations to ‘keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice.’ This is Abraham acting then, but it is ever since God acting in the lives of the successive generations, one generation, one person at a time, to inspire them to act out righteousness and justice. God and any human who lives, eyes even a bit open, knows there are plenty of people with lots of power, influence and money who, in each generation (also ours), have no inkling for righteousness and true justice. It is all self interest, the rest of humanity be damned. Which really is the condemnation of themselves in eternity.
Given the gift of sanctification we are holy! We have the ability to be holy in every moment. In these choices, compromised as they may be by our still being sinners, we not only have an end in eternal life, we have the blessings of eternal life already today, every day!
As Covid 19 health concerns and orders foist so many new limits on our lives, new challenges, and new frustrations. Humour provides a view to this. My 88 year old Mother, living alone 10 miles from town provided these:
Who would have thought that when the time changed we would go from standard time to twilight zone time, where:
I need to practice social distancing from the refrigerator.
I am so excited! I am so excited. It’s time to take out the garbage. What should I wear?
This month’s biggest decision was where to go for Easter!
the living room or the bed room.
Simple Daylight Savings Time does not look that terrible anymore.
God’s holy people know God’s time is eternal and already it breaks in every day into our mundane lives, making each minute remarkable!
Take that Covid 19!