Thursday, November 25, 2021
Looking Up,
Do You See the Trees,
Or
the Heavens Above?
…
The Forest or the View to God’s Grace?
Zephaniah 3:16-17
On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: Do not fear, O Zion; do not let your hands grow weak. The Lord, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
Ephesians 2:19
You are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God.
Words of Grace For Today
What do we need today,
a warrior who gives us victory over our enemies?
Or
to be renewed in God’s love?
There is, among all the things that occupy us in this life, only one thing that counts: our relationship with God.
Those that lie to the courts which have acted unjustly on their lies will have their lies turn back on them. There will be no escape for those that live by the lie, and try to kill by the lie.
Those that fear and love God, know God and God’s presence every day.
We are no longer strangers and aliens in God’s Kingdom. We are citizens with all the other God-made saints of all times, together children of God, members of God’s house.
Here we live.
Here our enemies’ lies have no meaning …
Here our enemies’ use of the unjust courts have no meaning, except
…
except their lies and perverse use of the unjust courts define them as God’s enemies.
That is no place to be on this planet, for there is no escape from God and God’s justice.
For us, there is home, always home in God’s blessed care.
Therefore we do not fear, no matter what lies our enemies threaten us with.
For we are God’s own people, God’s own blessed people, God’s own holy people.