Wednesday, February 2, 2022
A Beautiful Morning!?
A Bleepping Cold Morning?!?
A Wonderful Day!
Another Gift From God!
Psalm 34:2
My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Words of Grace For Today
We all seem to have something that we want to be proud of, that we want to be recognized and respected for. Some of us even have skills, accomplishments, and events in our pasts that we could be very proud of and that other people could recognize as good contributions to God’s good creation …
except.
Except our skills, accomplishments, and events in our pasts … in fact our everything about us … are gifts given to us by God.
Each day, even when the temperatures drop below -44⁰, we always have great cause to give God thanks, to rejoice in all that life is for us, and to pray …
to pray for what seems to be missing or lacking or challenging us beyond our imagination and our perceived abilities.
Often we might pray the wonderful quote from Mother Teresa: I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much. … But
But it was never Mother Teresa who said it. It’s a false attribution. So
So are we going to pray it. Probably not.
God gives us the abilities to handle as much as we can, and the truth that all humble and honest people know is that life can quite often throw up in one’s path more for us to handle than be can deal with.
Exactly then we learn our limits and …
we learn that giving God thanks, rejoicing, and praying constantly ARE things we can always do.
Well, that rejoicing part maybe not, or at least not with any exuberance when we lose those we love or we lose more of life than we thought we ever could and still stay alive. There’s grief. It’s real. It excludes the ability to rejoice. Most grief has a half life, but it can just as easily rejuvenate itself into our lives with no warning. That’s grief.
Grief and all kinds of suffering keep us humble, and teach us to pray also in our most desperate times.
What humble people can do and do perhaps better than the proud, is listen … listen to God’s Word and promises, and trust them. As God frees us to hear we live renewed and we can be glad … no matter what life puts in our way forward in time.