Saturday, May 8, 2021
‘Seen My Love, Lately?’
Psalm 44:26
Rise up, come to our help. Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love.
Luke 17:21
Nor will they say, “Look, here it is!” or “There it is!” For, in fact, the kingdom of God is among you.
Words of Grace For Today
As the slings and arrows fly at us, we are desperate for God to save us, not only from the things piercing the air so near us, some not passing us by. We need to be saved from ourselves. One only needs to recognize how we have dealt with the beauty of creation around, in and among us to know that we really do screw things up good. Or bad as it were.
So we require God’s salvation, and we cry ‘Rise up, come to our help. Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love,’for it is not on our own merit that we can possibly hope God will redeem us. We need God’s grace provided to us; we are solely dependent on God’s steadfast love as the reason God would save us.
So God provides all we need.
Further we need not look. We need not seek somewhere else. For the kingdom of God is here among us!
Great that it is, a life dependent on God’s Grace, on God’s steadfast love only.
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until we collectively and individually screw it up so royally again and the slings and arrows of others’ misplaced anger start piercing the air around and toward us.
So we cry to God to save us
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again and again we repeat this, and God, for the sake only of God’s steadfast love, continues to save us.
What a love!