Thursday, June 24, 2021
New life
Common and Spectacular
Exodus 34:9
He said, ‘If now I have found favour in your sight, O Lord, I pray, let the Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.’
Luke 1:76-77
You, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways, to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the forgiveness of their sins.
Words of Grace For Today
If …
If …
If we do the right thing …
Then God will do the right thing for us.
If … Then.
‘If we … Then God …’ is not the way that God works with us and all the universe.
God does and because God does therefore it is good for us!
God does Grace, at great expense, giving endlessly generously to us.
Therefore we live abundantly, grace pouring over us; God forgiving us our sins, life renewed for us and in us each day, each hour. God’s grace is more than sufficient for us, and as it pours over us it pours over all around us, with all those blessed with the blessing that is everything for life.
No ‘if … then’ when it comes to God.
Only ‘because … therefore’.
Therefore we live and as
Christ calls us to go out, sent to share the good news that God forgives all our sins.
There are no better words that we can ever hear, or share with others, … and more often than we can ever imagine these are the words that we so desperately need to hear again … and again … and yet again.
Because God forgives us, therefore we live and can be filled with gratitude and wonder.