Friday, January 7, 2022
It May Look Soft and Comfy
Easy Light and Curves Shown by Shadows
But It’s Already -41⁰ at 18:00
So It’s Hard Cold
And Was Even as the Sun Set Golden Light All Over the Snow.
God is Exactly the Opposite:
Appearing Hard and Judging All,
God is Actually Gracious and Generous For All.
Deuteronomy 4:39
So acknowledge today and take to heart that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.
Colossians 1:19-20
For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.
Words of Grace For Today
The all in one package of God
Three in One, yet all One.
Acknowledge God and take it to heart that God is God. Simple
and
yet
So impossible
for us frail, sinful humans.
The real nugget in all that we can say about God is that Jesus is God’s clear statement that God is pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.
Jesus’ story is not God making a special appeal to special people.
Jesus’ story is God making a very demonstrable appeal to all humans of all time: God wants to reconcile us all to God, no one is left out.
When God is pleased to do something so gracious and generous for all people, all people being so equally undeserving, then this is something truly awesome. It changes everything we thought we might have known about how life works.
We get to respond.
So do we respond by lying about others, framing them for our own sins and failings? Do we hide behind lies told by others, and corrupt practices, and the corruption of people in high places?
OR
Do we start to exercise God’s grace and generosity for ourselves and for all other people?