Saturday, January 29, 2022
As Wonders Abound,
None Are More Wondrous
Than the Holy Temple,
The Holy Vessels
God Made Us To Be.
Ezekiel 37:23
They shall never again defile themselves with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all the apostasies into which they have fallen, and will cleanse them. Then they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
1 Corinthians 3:16
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
Words of Grace For Today
There are innumerable examples of how we have perverted life into something that is a zero-sum game, and we’ve taken it for all we can, mostly from others, as if that were our right. Some have perverted the image they have of themselves into an image of a godlet, and excluded God from their lives (as if that were possible anyway.) Others have turned themselves to pursue [fill in any thing, or pleasure, or position, or wealth, or … ] as if attaining enough of it would fill their lives, and all sorts of perverse things happen to them and the people around them because of their pursuits.
God simply created us with freewill, and we make a mess of it, a terrible mess of it, we certainly do, we do.
God does not leave us there, in the damnable places and conditions we create for ourselves. God comes, as demonstrated in Jesus’ story, to cleanse us, and to restore us as God’s people … so that we once again can be people who fear and love God above all else. We see again that God is with us always, that God has poured God’s Spirit into us, made us vessels that hold the holy of holies, so that we can be and do God’s generous, unconditional, love and grace for all people.
You, and I, and each person, are/am/is a holy temple; and our treatment of ourselves and of others as holy is properly warranted.
God don’t make no junk.
God just makes all things blessed, and us, God made holy.
Get used to it.
Be it, with gratitude.