Friday, March 5, 2021
We Get to Reflect the Light of Christ
Wonders of Wonders.
Proverbs 18:10
The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run into it and are safe.
Philippians 4:6
Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
Words of Grace For Today
How can we live right, right enough to earn God’s blessings?
The world is full of ideas, of attempts, of desperations and all of them are futile.
We cannot. We are all and forever remain sinners. That is the way it is. Trying to make it to different is not ever going to work.
We need God’s Grace, that’s all there is to it.
We are only ever righteous if God makes us so, despite our sins.
After God makes us righteous we know to run and where to run – straight to God. That is the only place where we are safe. And how! In God’s arms we are safe no matter what happens around us, to us, or in us.
Of course there is no place that we actually run. Were it so simple!
It is a matter of recognizing how things are: God created everything and everyone. God created us. We always try to make it on our own without God. It’s impossible. Our on-our-own efforts land us in trouble with God every time.
Our basic attitude is that we need to make things good with God. Futile.
Instead God needs to save us! And God does that, leaves us nothing to do except accept God’s Grace as it is, unconditional. We are hard to win over, since we still think we need to go-it-on-our-own. So God came to live as one of us, paid the price we think needs to be paid for our sins; dies a terrible death tortured on a cross. We should be convinced, though our resistance is quite high!
That’s where the ‘running’ may appear to come in: we actually need to stop running on our own, running away from God. If we but rest, relax, breathe and calmly accept the world as it is God does the Grace-work for us, God makes us saints.
For all that we get to be thankful at our core.
That’s enough to keep us running everywhere, running on gratitude and wonder.