Saturday, April3, 2021
God’s Glory
Reaches Everywhere
Psalm 105:7
He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit.
Words of Grace For Today
God’s judgments are in all the earth and the judgments God makes is –
that God will sacrifice himself, even to death on a torturous cross, in order to give us life abundant.
Usually we think of judgments as condemning the unrighteous and commending the righteous. This is not God’s way with us.
Good thing because, if we acknowledge the truth, we are all unrighteous and worthy only of being condemned.
This day we remember that Jesus, fully God, lay dead in a tomb hewn out of a rock hillside.
God was dead.
This is what we unrighteous people deserve, yet fully righteous Jesus suffers our deserved ends.
The universe did not fully know then, and we can hardly full know now, the profound event of God being dead, of God suffering death and a torturous death at that, and of unjust humans exercising their petty power to condemn God to death.
This we remember for three days, or part thereof, and this Saturday all day long.
We remember, with grateful hearts, for without this sacrifice we would likely not know God’s intentions towards us unrighteous people. God’s intentions are …
Well the story of God communicating to us through Jesus, fully God and fully human, does not end on this day. It continues tomorrow, and each tomorrow … even during Covid 19 pandemic’s challenges.
God’s Intention Is To Make God’s Glory
Down to Earth Obvious
to Us