Saturday, October 3, 2020
Long Shadows of Early Evening
Tilt the World Thirty Degrees for Clarity
Isaiah 9:1
There will be no gloom for those who were in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he will make glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
1 Peter 2:9
You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
Words of Grace For Today
As time unfolds we always find a way to deride people, places, and people from places.
God treasures all people, all places and all people from all places.
In time all those places that we have derided, God will bring into the glory that cannot be matched, God’s glory.
In time all the people that we have derided, God will bring into the glory that cannot be matched, God’s glory.
Where have we been? As people that deride others we have run ourselves into the darkness that the Devil provides so readily for us to hide our sins in. With Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection revealing God’s unconditional love for all creation and all people therein, we are brought into the Light, sometimes kicking and screaming for protection from the Light that exposes our corrupt way of living selfishly at others expense, some of us seeking others’ destruction for the perverse pleasure it gives us, the feeling of perverse power over others. I’ve met way too many people like that in the last few years!
As people derided others have tried to shove us down and hold us down in the darkness. With Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection revealing God’s unconditional love for all creation and all people therein, we are brought into the Light. With glorious relief and freedom we celebrate in the Light! We live with gratitude unmatched, for we were once nothing, and now we breathe, and live, and dance, and sing in freedom!
We know the wonders of God’s creation and God’s unconditional love for all people.
How are other people to know of God’s great wonders?
God calls us, the people freed from slavery and darkness, to proclaim the mighty works of God to all people. We proclaim the mighty power of unconditional love, of sacrificial love, and of the beauty of the universe.
For this we are set aside, a royal priesthood of God’s children. We saints are without number, growing with each generation.
Yet we are still slaves to the sin that the Devil uses to enslave us in darkness. We are simultaneously saints and sinners.
All the more we proclaim, so that we ourselves hear of the wonders of God’s love that saves us each day.
That’s worth a dance, a ‘happy’ dance of profound joy, each day!
Precautions carefully observed, restrictions adhered to, directions complied with, we still dance. No one can take that from us!
Our life may be off kilter. The Light of God makes shadows that guide us back on the level of God’s creation.