Saturday, August 15, 2020
In the Storms of Life
God teaches us to trust
Grace.
Zechariah 7:10
Do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.
1 Corinthians 1:28
God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to reduce to nothing things that are.
Words of Grace For Today
The way we humans organize our world and our lives, the strong step on the weak to lift themselves out of the morass of life into the rarefied air of privilege and comfort.
God’s intention for us is not so.
Jesus calls us to turn towards the poor, the vulnerable, the aliens and the outsiders and provide them the goodness of life, which God has already shared with us.
According to our world measures, God is not powerful. Yet God is all-powerful, unequalled in power.
According to our world measures where information is power, and time is money, God is not significant nor rich. Yet God is all-knowing and owns all of time, as well as everything ‘before’ and ‘after’ and ‘outside’ of time.
God turns our world measures upside down and shakes them out like an old gunny sack, showing that we have collected at most chaff, not the grain from which the bread of life is made.
God uses what the world considers refuse, cast aways, and expendable; with these God demonstrates his power with Grace, and his knowing everything about us with Love. God gives us in the darkest places hope, for out of our deepest darknesses God brings us the greatest experiences and lessons of how Grace works for us and for all people. These experiences teach us how futile evil scheming is. Only loving ourselves, our neighbours, and even our enemies, can bring us true joy, abundant life, and the meaning for our lives that God created us to enjoy.