Saturday, January 23, 2021
It all points to the Truth:
Not Cold, nor Storms, nor Wind, nor Foe
Nothing Separates Us From God’s Grace
and Our Home in the Land of Faithfulness!
Jeremiah 32:41
I will rejoice in doing good to them, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.
Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost.
Words of Grace For Today
The case where we find ourselves in our stories after we sin, yet again:
To be lost.
To be lost in despair.
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To be lost in despair as the rest of the world seemingly peers down on us as nothing.
The case where God’s story takes over ours and becomes ours:
To be found.
To be found worthy.
To be found worthy and given all that can be dreamed of.
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If we have not known the first circumstance as our own, each day many times over … if we continually hide the truth from ourselves and we cannot and do not admit how lost we are, then the second circumstance can hardly mean anything.
The Son of Man did not come to heal the self declared ‘healthy’ nor to rescue those that claim not to be ‘lost’. God’s Son came and comes, sought out and seeks out those that are lost, found and finds us and restores us to the fullness of life, found and blessed.
God blesses us by planting us in this land in faithfulness. What a land that is: no fake news, no relative truths, no deception, no getting ahead at others’ cost, no rules using Covid as a cover for corruption and no rampant evil run amok. This land in faithfulness is a land where everyone has a home, a good home. And everyone is faithful to each other and to God.
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Of course when the world around us gangs up on us for things we have not done and tries to Gaslight us in to believing that we are worthless, then it certainly helps to know the first case very well as it is actually true for ourselves, AND to know the second case (God’s Grace) to be true for us at the same time. Because then the Gaslighting, no matter how persistent nor long, will not destroy us. Then we benefit for God has planted us in the land of faithfulness. We know how humble we must be, how broken and lost we are, and how blessed we are that God claims us as God’s own children.
In the land of faithfulness all people prosper, contribute, and share blessings, especially with those in need. All the possible dreams of being blessed by God are made to come to be, for us all.
No Covid 19, restrictions, loneliness, covidiots, storming unrighteous and foolish mobs, or threats to our well-being can separate us from God’s blessing.
… So we lay ourselves to sleep each night confident that God’s will can be done also among us, and we will sleep in safety.
… So we rise up in the morning each day confident that God’s will can be done also among us also by us, and we shall live in safety, boldly acting as agents for the Son of Man, seeking, finding, and rescuing the lost … rescuing them with the same Grace that daily saves us.
That’s reality. That’s truth. That’s love.
What a life! God gives us all blessings possible!