Saturday, June 20, 2020
The Majesty of God
Is visible
Every day
We can live with and for God
or we die even as we yet stay above the ground.
Psalm 111:3
Full of honour and majesty is his work, and his righteousness endures for ever.
2 Timothy 2:19
God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this inscription: ‘The Lord knows those who are his’, and, ‘Let everyone who calls on the name of the Lord turn away from wickedness.’
Words of Grace For Today
The Lord knows those who are His.
Are you one of God’s, one of Hers or one of His?
Do you know that even those who call on the Lord’s name need, desperately need, to turn away from wickedness?
If you do not, where have you lived? Have you lived with blinders on? For those who gather in Jesus’ churches think, say and do as much wickedness as anyone else.
Where are you living your days? Wherever it is and with whomever you keep company, God’s work is full of honour and majesty. It is not cheap or deceptive. It stands clear in the open and those who keep secrets to develop schemes and cheap lies cannot stand with those who do God’s will. The righteousness of God endures, no matter the cheap tricks, secrets, and schemes that supposed good people pursue, as if theirs could ever be the work of God.
May we and our loved ones turn from the wickedness that tempts each of us. May we turn instead toward the goodness that we should all remember from at least a fog tinged memory. For God has not left any of us without an idea of goodness.
Let us enjoy and trust all that God does, in righteousness, honour, and majesty.
Washed in the waters of baptism we know God’s work is righteous.
The challenges of Covid 19 raise the background tensions so high that people are behaving madly, and still we know God’s work is righteous.
The challenges of Covid 19 are not the restrictions, lock-downs, and new practices we must follow. The challenges of Covid 19 are the mental-health-deficit-craziness that good people jump into without a sane reflection of what it will cost them, and us all.
Still we know that God’s work is righteousness, honour and majesty.
Let us pray that the Holy Spirit will keep us from this madness, and firmly rooted, humbly in God’s Grace, so that God can work through us … to bring righteousness, honour, and majesty to be also here, today.