Tuesday, April 13, 2021
See God’s Gracious Gifts
Respond with a Life of Gratitude
Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness so that you may be saved. How long shall your evil schemes lodge within you?
Luke 3:8
Bear fruits worthy of repentance. Do not begin to say to yourselves, “We have Abraham as our ancestor”; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
Words of Grace For Today
Just because God is gracious, does not mean we get to continue on endlessly sinning and abusing others to get ahead.
5% of the wealthiest in the world pollute more than the least wealthy 50%.
It’s not right.
People who lie in court and get away with it ruining other people are all too frequent. Excuses that the ‘loser’ is self represented, or that the court record does not support the truth is no excuse. The system is broken because people from the least to the top of the courts choose to break it.
It’s not right.
Abusively dumping your history of being abused on others, creating stress and drama that has not basis in reality is all too common, and excused as the right of the abused.
It’s not right.
Guests who behave like they own the place throw all common sense out the book. Guests ought to be grateful, not demanding.
It’s not right.
Taking more than one needs, and depriving (or avoiding knowing one is thereby depriving) others of the basics of life is how civilizations are built and sustained.
It’s not right.
God forgives. We all count on it. At times we all continue on with what we are forgiven, to our own and others great costs. People who do that all the time destroy all community and trust … and break God’s grace. God does not have to continue to forgive us if we refuse to acknowledge our ongoing need for forgiveness, and God’s sanctification of us (making us holy) so that we can amend our lives.
Life is good, when one is grateful and responsive to God’s forgiveness and grace.
That is right … always right!