Wednesday, April 22, 2020
God’s Love Colours our World
Ezekiel 16:8
I passed by you again and looked on you; you were at the age for love. I spread the edge of my cloak over you, and covered your nakedness: I pledged myself to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God, and you became mine.
Galatians 3:26
For in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith.
Words of Grace For Today
Everywhere one hears the words of love, of romantic love that turns one’s world right-side-up, that sets the fears of the night to rest, that provides balm to one’s ills, and brightens the future with brilliant light.
God uses these experiences and images to speak through the prophet to describe how God claims us. When we were at the age of love! When we were but infants we were already at the age of love poured out on us by God, so God claims us. We were robed in white, marked with the cross, and blessed for each day and each challenge …
including the many challenges we face these days!
By faith God claims us through Jesus Christ. The faith that brings an infant to the baptismal font is not the infant’s faith. The faith that brings us as infants to be claimed by God is our parents’ faith … and our godparent’s faith … and the person ordained to baptize us’ faith … and the people who gather’s faith. All this faith is in each instance not earned or acquired. It is given by God.
There is no challenge that can defeat the faith that God creates in us.
Play the music of your faith, the music that rings through all of creation, the music that inspires the soul and heals the body and mind.
In this music experience the love that captures us and sets us free in a world made right with us in it!
Be courageous, calm and kind. We are in this together. Share the love that makes life precious!
God is with us, even when we think we are alone, and if God is with us, then the saints of all the generations walk with us as well. Their love surrounds us no matter what we face.